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禪 禅 see styles |
shàn shan4 shan yuzuri ゆずり |
More info & calligraphy: Zen / Chan / Meditation(out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) dhyana (profound meditation); (2) (abbreviation) Zen (Buddhism); (surname) Yuzuri To level a place for an altar, to sacrifice to the hills and fountains; to abdicate. Adopted by Buddhists for dhyāna, 禪 or 禪那, i.e. meditation, abstraction, trance. dhyāna is 'meditation, thought, reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation'. M.W. It was intp. as 'getting rid of evil', etc., later as 靜慮 quiet meditation. It is a form of 定, but that word is more closely allied with samādhi, cf. 禪定. The term also connotes Buddhism and Buddhist things in general, but has special application to the 禪宗 q.v. It is one of the six pāramitās, cf. 波. There are numerous methods and subjects of meditation. The eighteen brahmalokas are divided into four dhyāna regions 'corresponding to certain frames of mind where individuals might be reborn in strict accordance with their spiritual state'. The first three are the first dhyāna, the second three the second dhyāna, the third three the third dhyāna, and the remaining nine the fourth dhyāna. See Eitel. According to Childers' Pali Dictionary, 'The four jhānas are four stages of mystic meditation, whereby the believer's mind is purged from all earthly emotions, and detached as it were from his body, which remains plunged in a profound trance.' Seated cross-legged, the practiser 'concentrates his mind upon a single thought. Gradually his soul becomes filled with a supernatural ecstasy and serenity', his mind still reasoning: this is the first jhāna. Concentrating his mind on the same subject, he frees it from reasoning, the ecstasy and serenity remaining, which is the second jhāna. Then he divests himself of ecstasy, reaching the third stage of serenity. Lastly, in the fourth stage the mind becomes indifferent to all emotions, being exalted above them and purified. There are differences in the Mahāyāna methods, but similarity of aim. |
地獄 地狱 see styles |
dì yù di4 yu4 ti yü jigoku じごく |
More info & calligraphy: Hell(1) {Buddh} hell realm; Naraka; (2) {Christn} Hell; (3) hell; misery; nightmare; inferno; (4) place where a volcano or hot springs constantly spew smoke or steam; (place-name) Jigoku naraka, 捺落迦 (or 那落迦) ; niraya 泥犂; explained by 不樂 joyless; 可厭 disgusting, hateful; 苦具, 苦器 means of suffering; if 地獄 earth-prison; 冥府 the shades, or departments of darkness. Earth-prison is generally intp. as hell or the hells; it may also be termed purgatory; one of the six gati or ways of transmigration. The hells are divided into three classes: I. Central, or radical, 根本地獄 consisting of (1) The eight hot hells. These were the original hells of primitive Buddhism, and are supposed to be located umder the southern continent Jambudvīpa 瞻部州, 500 yojanas below the surface. (a) 等活 or 更活 Saṃjīva, rebirth, where after many kinds of suffering a cold wind blows over the soul and returns it to this life as it was before, hence the name 等活. (b) 黑繩 Kaslasūtra, where the sufferer is bound with black chains and chopped or sawn asunder. (c) 線合; 衆合; 堆壓 Saṃghāta, where are multitudes of implements of torture, or the falling of mountains upon the sufferer. (d) 號呌; 呼呼; 叫喚 Raurava, hell of wailing. (e) 大呌; 大號呌; 大呼 Mahāraurava, hell of great wailing. (f) 炎熱; 燒炙 Tapana, hell of fames and burning. (g) 大熱; 大燒炙; 大炎熱 Pratāpana, hell of molten lead. (h) 無間; 河鼻旨; 阿惟越致; 阿毗至; 阿鼻; 阿毗 Avīci, unintermitted suffering, where sinners die and are reborn to suffer without interval. (2) The eight cold hells 八寒地獄. (a) 頞浮陀地獄 Arbuda, where the cold causes blisters. (b) 尼刺部陀 Nirarbuda, colder still causing the blisters to burst. (c) 頞哳吒; 阿吒吒 Atata, where this is the only possible sound from frozen lips. (d) 臛臛婆; 阿波波 Hahava or Apapa, where it is so cold that only this sound can be uttered. (e) 虎虎婆 Hāhādhara or Huhuva, where only this sound can be uttered. (f) 嗢鉢羅; 鬱鉢羅 (or 優鉢羅) Utpala, or 尼羅鳥 (or 漚) 鉢羅 Nīlotpala, where the skin is frozen like blue lotus buds. (g) 鉢特摩 Padma, where the skin is frozen and bursts open like red lotus buds. (h) 摩訶鉢特摩 Mahāpadma, ditto like great red lotus buds. Somewhat different names are also given. Cf. 倶舍論 8; 智度論 16; 涅槃經 11. II. The secondary hells are called 近邊地獄 adjacent hells or 十六遊增 each of its four sides, opening from each such door are four adjacent hells, in all sixteen; thus with the original eight there are 136. A list of eighteen hells is given in the 十八泥梨經. III. A third class is called the 孤地獄 (獨地獄) Lokāntarika, or isolated hells in mountains, deserts, below the earth and above it. Eitel says in regard to the eight hot hells that they range 'one beneath the other in tiers which begin at a depth of 11,900 yojanas and reach to a depth of 40,000 yojanas'. The cold hells are under 'the two Tchahavālas and range shaft-like one below the other, but so that this shaft is gradually widening to the fourth hell and then narrowing itself again so that the first and last hell have the shortest, those in the centre the longest diameter'. 'Every universe has the same number of hells, ' but 'the northern continent has no hell whatever, the two continents east and west of Meru have only small Lokāntarika hells... whilst all the other hells are required for the inhabitants of the southern continent '. It may be noted that the purpose of these hells is definitely punitive, as well as purgatorial. Yama is the judge and ruler, assisted by eighteen officers and a host of demons, who order or administer the various degrees of torture. 'His sister performs the same duties with regard to female criminals, ' and it may be mentioned that the Chinese have added the 血盆池 Lake of the bloody bath, or 'placenta tank' for women who die in childbirth. Release from the hells is in the power of the monks by tantric means. |
永生 see styles |
yǒng shēng yong3 sheng1 yung sheng eisei / ese えいせい |
More info & calligraphy: Eternal Life / Everlasting Life / Immortalityeternal life; immortality; (personal name) Hisaki Eternal life; immortality; nirvana is defined as 不生 not being born, i. e. not reborn, and therefore 不滅 not dying; 永生 is also perpetual life; the Amitābha cult says in the Pure Land. |
老子 see styles |
lǎo zi lao3 zi5 lao tzu roushi / roshi ろうし |
More info & calligraphy: Lao Tzu / LaoziLaozi; Lao Tzu; Lao Tse; (person) Laozi (semi-legendary Chinese philosopher and deity); Lao Tzu; Lao Tse Laozi, or Laocius, the accepted founder of the Daoists. The theory that his soul went to India and was reborn as the Buddha is found in the 齊書 History of the Qi dynasty 顧歡傳. |
輪廻 轮廻 see styles |
lún huí lun2 hui2 lun hui rinne りんね |
More info & calligraphy: Samsara / Endless Cycle of Rebirth輪轉 saṃsāra, the turning of the wheel, to revolve, i.e. transmigration in the six ways, the wheel of transmigration; the round of existence. |
重生 see styles |
chóng shēng chong2 sheng1 ch`ung sheng chung sheng shigeo しげお |
More info & calligraphy: Re-Birth / Renaissance(given name) Shigeo |
戒 see styles |
jiè jie4 chieh kai; ingoto(ok) かい; いんごと(ok) |
to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing something; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger) (1) (かい only) {Buddh} admonition; commandment; (2) sila (precept) śīla, 尸羅. Precept, command, prohibition, discipline, rule; morality. It is applied to the five, eight, ten, 250, and other commandments. The five are: (1) not to kill; (2 ) not to steal; (3) not to commit adultery; (4) not to speak falsely; (5) not to drink wine. These are the commands for lay disciples; those who observe them will be reborn in the human realm. The Sarvāstivādins did not sanction the observance of a limited selection from them as did the 成實宗 Satyasiddhi school. Each of the five precepts has five guardian spirits, in all twenty-five, 五戒二十五神. The eight for lay disciples are the above five together with Nos. 7, 8, and 9 of the following; the ten commands for the ordained, monks and nuns, are the above five with the following: (6) not to use adornments of flowers, nor perfumes; (7) not to perform as an actor, juggler, acrobat, or go to watch and hear them; (8) not to sit on elevated, broad, and large divans (or beds); (9) not to eat except in regulation hours; (10) not to possess money, gold or silver, or precious things. The 具足戒full commands for a monk number 250, those for a nun are 348, commonly called 500. Śīla is also the first of the 五分法身, i.e. a condition above all moral error. The Sutra of Brahma's Net has the following after the first five: (6) not to speak of the sins of those in orders; (7) not to vaunt self and depreciate others; (8) not to be avaricious; (9) not to be angry; (10) not to slander the triratna. |
蘇 苏 see styles |
sū su1 su sohou / soho そほう |
Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration (1) condensed milk; (n,n-suf,n-pref) (2) (abbreviation) Soviet Union; (personal name) Sohou Refreshing thyme; revive, cheer; Suzhou; translit. su, so, sa, s. Most frequently it translit. the Sanskait su, which means good, well excellent, very. Cf. 須, 修. |
上生 see styles |
shàng shēng shang4 sheng1 shang sheng wabu わぶ |
(place-name) Wabu be reborn into a superior state of existence |
不生 see styles |
bù shēng bu4 sheng1 pu sheng fushou / fusho ふしょう |
(place-name) Fushou anutpatti; anutpāda. Non-birth: not to be reborn, exempt from rebirth; arhan is mistakenly interpreted as 'not born', meaning not born again into mortal worlds. The 'nir' in nirvana is also erroneously said to mean 'not born'; certain schools say that nothing ever has been born, or created, for all is eternal. The Shingon word 'a' is interpreted as symbolizing the uncreated. The unborn or uncreated is a name for the Tathāgata, who is not born, but eternal ; hence by implication the term means "eternal". ādi, which means"at first, " "beginning","primary", is also interpreted as 不生 uncreated. |
中陰 中阴 see styles |
zhōng yīn zhong1 yin1 chung yin chuuin / chuin ちゅういん |
{Buddh} bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days); (place-name) Nakakage The intermediate existence between death and reincarnation, a stage varying from seven to forty-nine days, when the karma-body will certainly be reborn; v. 中有. |
了教 see styles |
liǎo jiào liao3 jiao4 liao chiao Ryōkyō |
A noted disciple named Ajñāta-Kauṇḍinya, v. 阿, also known as拘鄰鄰,了本際 and 知本際. He is described as "a prince of Magadha, maternal uncle of Śākyamuni, whose first disciple he became". He is "to be reborn as Buddha under the name of Samanṭa-Prabhāsa". Eitel. |
二業 二业 see styles |
èr yè er4 ye4 erh yeh nigyou / nigyo にぎょう |
(archaism) restaurants and geisha establishments Two classes of karma. (1) (a) 引業 leads to the 總報, i.e. the award as to the species into which one is to be born, e.g. men, gods, etc.; (6) 滿業 is the 別報 or fulfillment in detail, i.e. the kind or quality of being e.g. clever or stupid, happy or unhappy, etc. (2) (a) 善業 and (b) 惡業 Good and evil karma, resulting in happiness or misery. (3) (a) 助業 Aids to the karma of being reborn in Amitābha's Pure—land e. g. offerings, chantings, etc.; (b) 正業 thought and invocation of Amitābha with undivided mind, as the direct method. |
五性 see styles |
wǔ xìng wu3 xing4 wu hsing goshō |
The five different natures as grouped by the 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana sect; of these the first and second, while able to attain to non-return to mortality, are unable to reach Buddhahood; of the fourth some may, others may not reach it; the fifth will be reborn as devas or men: (1) śrāvakas for arhats; (2) pratyekabuddhas for pratyekabuddha-hood; (3) bodhisattvas for Buddhahood; (4) indefinite; (5) outsiders who have not the Buddha mind. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment 圓覺經 has another group, i. e. the natures of (1) ordinary good people; (2) śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas; (3) bodhisattvas; (4) indefinite; (5) heretics. |
五果 see styles |
wǔ guǒ wu3 guo3 wu kuo goka ごか |
(1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods. |
人因 see styles |
rén yīn ren2 yin1 jen yin ninin |
The causative influences for being reborn as a human being, i.e. a good life. Those in positions of honour have obtained them by former deeds of benevolence, reverence to Buddhas and monks, patience, humility, devotion to the sutras, charity, morality, zeal and exhortation, obedience, loyalty - hence they have obtained affluence, long life, and are held in high regard. Those in mean condition are thus born because of the opposite characteristics in previous incarnation. |
再生 see styles |
zài shēng zai4 sheng1 tsai sheng saisei / saise さいせい |
to be reborn; to regenerate; to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person); recycling; regeneration (n,vs,vt,vi) (1) restoration to life; coming to life again; resuscitation; regeneration; (n,vs,vi) (2) reformation; rehabilitation; (noun, transitive verb) (3) recycling; reclamation; recovery; (noun, transitive verb) (4) playback; regeneration (of video or sound); views (of an online video); (n,vs,vt,vi) (5) {biol} regeneration (of lost or damaged tissue); regrowth; (noun, transitive verb) (6) rebirth; reincarnation; (n,vs,vt,vi) (7) {psych} recall (memory); retrieval |
出現 出现 see styles |
chū xiàn chu1 xian4 ch`u hsien chu hsien shutsugen しゅつげん |
to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up (n,vs,vi) appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence To manifest, reveal, be manifested, appear, e. g. as does a Buddha's temporary body, or nirmāṇakāya. Name of Udāyi 優陀夷 a disciple of Buddha to be reborn as Samantaprabhāsa; also of a son of Ajātaśatru. |
受身 see styles |
shòu shēn shou4 shen1 shou shen jushin うけみ |
(n,adj-no,adj-na) (1) the defensive; (2) passive attitude; passivity; passiveness; (3) (linguistics terminology) the passive; passive voice; (4) (martial arts term) ukemi (the art of falling safely) to be reborn into a new body |
名相 see styles |
míng xiàng ming2 xiang4 ming hsiang myōsō |
famous prime minister (in ancient China); names and appearances (Buddhism) Name and appearance; everything has a name, e. g. sound, or has appearance, i. e. the visible, v. 名色; both are unreal and give rise to delusion. The name under which Subhūti will be reborn as Buddha. |
四土 see styles |
sì tǔ si4 tu3 ssu t`u ssu tu shido しど |
{Buddh} four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara) The four Buddha-kṣetra, or realms, of Tiantai: (1) 凡聖居同土 Realms where all classes dwell— men, devas, Buddhas, disciples, non-disciples; it has two divisions, the impure, e. g. this world, and the pure, e. g. the 'Western' pure-land. (2) 方便有餘土 Temporary realms, where the occupants have got rid of the evils of 見思 unenlightened views and thoughts, but still have to be reborn. (3) 實報無障礙土 Realms of permanent reward and freedom, for those who have attained bodhisattva rank. (4) 常寂光土 Realm of eternal rest and light (i. e. wisdom) and of eternal spirit (dharmakāya), the abode of Buddhas; but in reality all the others are included in this, and are only separated for convenience, sake. |
寶相 宝相 see styles |
bǎo xiàng bao3 xiang4 pao hsiang hōsō |
The precious likeness, or image (of Buddha). ratnaketu, one of the seven tathāgatas; a name of Ānanda as a future buddha; the name under which 2,000 of Śākyamuni's disciples are to be reborn as buddhas. |
往生 see styles |
wǎng shēng wang3 sheng1 wang sheng oujou / ojo おうじょう |
to be reborn; to live in paradise (Buddhism); to die; (after) one's death (n,vs,vi) (1) {Buddh} passing on to the next life; (n,vs,vi) (2) death; (n,vs,vi) (3) giving up a struggle; submission; (n,vs,vi) (4) being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed; (5) (rare) (See 圧状・2) coercion The future life, the life to which anyone is going; to go to be born in the Pure Land of Amitābha. (1) 往相囘向 To transfer one's merits to all beings that they may attain the Pure Land of Amitābha. (2) 還相囘向 Having been born in the Pure Land to return to mortality and by one's merits to bring mortals to the Pure Land. |
復生 复生 see styles |
fù shēng fu4 sheng1 fu sheng matao またお |
to be reborn; to recover; to come back to life; to regenerate (given name) Matao renewed appearance |
戒力 see styles |
jiè lì jie4 li4 chieh li kairiki |
The power derived from observing the commandments, enabling one who observes the five commandments to be reborn among men, and one who observes the ten positive commands 十善 to be born among devas, or as a king. |
戒善 see styles |
jiè shàn jie4 shan4 chieh shan kaizen |
The good root of keeping the commandments, from which springs the power for one who keeps the five to be reborn as a man; or for one who keeps the ten to be reborn in the heavens, or as a king. |
托生 see styles |
tuō shēng tuo1 sheng1 t`o sheng to sheng takushō |
to be reincarnated; to be reborn That to which birth is entrusted, as a womb, or a lotus in Paradise. |
投生 see styles |
tóu shēng tou2 sheng1 t`ou sheng tou sheng |
reborn (of departed spirit); to be reincarnated; to leave home for a new life |
持水 see styles |
chí shuǐ chi2 shui3 ch`ih shui chih shui Jisui |
Jātiṃdhara, a physician who adjusted prescriptions and diet to the seasons; reborn as Śuddhodana. |
欲生 see styles |
yù shēng yu4 sheng1 yü sheng yokushō |
reborn into desire |
水滿 水满 see styles |
shuǐ mǎn shui3 man3 shui man Suiman |
Jalāmbara (third son of 流水 Jalavāhana) reborn as Śākyamuni's son Rāhula. |
沒生 没生 see styles |
mò shēng mo4 sheng1 mo sheng mochishō |
perish and be reborn |
爪土 see styles |
zhǎo tǔ zhao3 tu3 chao t`u chao tu sōdo |
(爪上土) The quantity of earth one can put on a toe-nail, i. e. in proportion to the whole earth in the world, such is the rareness of being reborn as a human being; or, according to the Nirvana Sutra 33, of attaining nirvana. |
生上 see styles |
shēng shàng sheng1 shang4 sheng shang shōjō |
to be reborn into a higher level of existence |
生天 see styles |
shēng tiān sheng1 tian1 sheng t`ien sheng tien shōten |
The heavens where those living in this world can be reborn, i. e. from that of the 四天王 to the 非想天; v. 福生天. |
畜生 see styles |
chù sheng chu4 sheng5 ch`u sheng chu sheng chikushou(p); chikishou; chikushoo / chikusho(p); chikisho; chikushoo ちくしょう(P); ちきしょう; チクショー |
domestic animal; brute; bastard (interjection) (1) (kana only) damn it; damn; son of a bitch; for Christ's sake; (2) beast; animal; (3) {Buddh} (See 畜生道・1) person reborn into the animal realm; (4) brute; bastard tiryagyoni, 底栗車; 傍生 'Born of or as an animal, ' rebirth as an animal; animals in general; especially domestic animals. |
盲龜 盲龟 see styles |
máng guī mang2 gui1 mang kuei mōki |
It is as easy for a blind turtle to find a floating long as it is for a man to be reborn as a man, or to meet with a buddha and his teaching. |
福報 福报 see styles |
fú bào fu2 bao4 fu pao fukuhō |
karmic reward (Buddhism) A blessed reward, e.g. to be reborn as a man or a deva. |
福行 see styles |
fú xíng fu2 xing2 fu hsing fukugyō |
The life or conduct which results in blessing e.g. being reborn as a man or a deva. |
禪天 禅天 see styles |
chán tiān chan2 tian1 ch`an t`ien chan tien zenten |
dhyāna heavens, four in number, where those who practise meditation may be reborn, v. 禪. |
脫胎 脱胎 see styles |
tuō tāi tuo1 tai1 t`o t`ai to tai |
to be born; (fig.) to develop out of something else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc); (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn); bodiless (e.g. lacquerware) |
轉廻 转廻 see styles |
zhuǎn huí zhuan3 hui2 chuan hui ten'e |
To return, revolve, be reborn; idem 輪廻. |
退沒 退没 see styles |
tuì mò tui4 mo4 t`ui mo tui mo taimotsu |
To be reborn in a lower stage of existence. |
還生 还生 see styles |
huán shēng huan2 sheng1 huan sheng genshō |
To return to life; to be reborn in this world; to be reborn from the Hīnayāna nirvana in order to be able to attain to Mahāyāna buddhahood; also, restoration to the order, after repentance for sin. |
針孔 针孔 see styles |
zhēn kǒng zhen1 kong3 chen k`ung chen kung shinku みぞ |
pinhole (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) (1) eye of a needle; (2) hole A needle's eye: it is as difficult to be reborn as a man as it is to thread a needle on earth by throwing the thread at it from the sky. |
閻魔 阎魔 see styles |
yán mó yan2 mo2 yen mo enma えんま |
(Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell {Buddh} Yama (King of Hell who judges the dead); Enma; (dei) Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna 閻王 閻羅; (閻魔王); 閻摩羅; 閻老 Yama, also v. 夜; 閻羅王 Yama. (1) In the Vedas the god of the dead, with whom the spirits of the departed dwell. He was son of the Sun and had a twin sister Yamī or Yamuna. By some they were looked upon as the first human pair. (2) In later Brahmanic mythology, one of the eight Lokapālas, guardian of the South and ruler of the Yamadevaloka and judge of the dead. (3) In Buddhist mythology, the regent of the Nārakas, residing south of Jambudvīpa, outside of the Cakravālas, in a palace of copper and iron. Originally he is described as a king of Vaiśālī, who, when engaged in a bloody war, wished he were master of hell, and was accordingly reborn as Yama in hell together with his eighteen generals and his army of 80,000 men, who now serve him in purgatory. His sister Yamī deals with female culprits. Three times in every twenty-four hours demon pours into Yama's mouth boiling copper (by way of punishment), his subordinates receiving the same dose at the same time, until their sins are expiated, when he will be reborn as Samantarāja 普王. In China he rules the fifth court of purgatory. In some sources he is spoken of as ruling the eighteen judges of purgatory. |
阿鼻 see styles |
ā bí a1 bi2 a pi abi あび |
Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells; fig. hell; hell on earth {Buddh} Avici (lowest level of hell) Avīci, 阿鼻旨; 阿鼻脂; 阿鼻至; the last and deepest of the eight hot hells, where the culprits suffer, die, and are instantly reborn to suffering, without interruption 無間. It is the 阿鼻地獄 (阿鼻旨地獄) or the 阿鼻焦熱地獄hell of unintermitted scorching; or the阿鼻喚地獄 hell of unintermitted wailing; its wall, out of which there is no escape, is the 阿鼻大城. |
隨求 随求 see styles |
suí qiú sui2 qiu2 sui ch`iu sui chiu Zuigu |
According to prayer. Name of a deva who was formerly a wicked monk who died and went to hell, but when dying repented, prayed, and was reborn the deva 隨求天子 or 隨求卽得天子. Also, a bodhisattva in the Guanyin group of the Garbhadhātu, a metamorphosis of Guanyin, who sees that all prayers are answered, 隨求菩薩. |
不往生 see styles |
bù wǎng shēng bu4 wang3 sheng1 pu wang sheng fuōshō |
not reborn [into the Pure Land] |
不更生 see styles |
bù gēng shēng bu4 geng1 sheng1 pu keng sheng fukyōshō |
not reborn |
不生斷 不生断 see styles |
bù shēng duàn bu4 sheng1 duan4 pu sheng tuan fushō dan |
One of the 三斷, when illusion no longer arises the sufferings of being reborn in the evil paths are ended. |
五念門 五念门 see styles |
wǔ niàn mén wu3 nian4 men2 wu nien men gonenmon ごねんもん |
{Buddh} five gates of mindfulness: worship, praise, vows, observation, prayers for the dead The five devotional gates of the Pure-land sect: (1) worship of Amitābha with the 身 body; (2) invocation with the 口 mouth; (3) resolve with the 意 mind to be reborn in the Pure-land; (4) meditation on the glories of that land, etc.; (5) resolve to bestow one's merits, e. g. works of supererogation, on all creatures. |
作願門 作愿门 see styles |
zuò yuàn mén zuo4 yuan4 men2 tso yüan men sagan mon |
To make a vow to benefit self and others, and to fulfil the vow so as to be born in the Pure Land of Amitābha. The third of the five doors or ways of entering the Pure Land. |
僧寶果 僧宝果 see styles |
sēng bǎo guǒ seng1 bao3 guo3 seng pao kuo sōhō ka |
The perfect arhat who has not to be reborn. |
光德國 光德国 see styles |
guāng dé guó guang1 de2 guo2 kuang te kuo Kōtoku koku |
Avabhāsa, the kingdom of light and virtue, or glorious virtue, in which Mahākāśyapa is to be reborn as a Buddha under the name of 光明 Raśmiprabhāsa. |
光音天 see styles |
guāng yīn tiān guang1 yin1 tian1 kuang yin t`ien kuang yin tien kōon ten |
Ābhāsvara, light and sound, or light-sound heavens, also styled 極光淨天, the heavens of utmost light and purity, i. e. the third of the second dhyāna heavens, in which the inhabitants converse by light instead of words; they recreate the universe from the hells up to and including the first dhyāna heavens after it has been destroyed by fire during he final series of cataclysms; but they gradually diminish in power and are reborn in lower states. The three heavens of the second dhyāna are 少光, 無量光, and 光音. |
兜率陀 see styles |
dōu shuài tuó dou1 shuai4 tuo2 tou shuai t`o tou shuai to Tosotsuda |
(兜率 or 兜率哆); 兜術; 珊都史多, 珊覩史多; 鬭瑟多 Tuṣita, from tuṣ, contented, satisfied, gratified; name of the Tuṣita heaven, the fourth devaloka in the 欲界 passion realm, or desire realm between the Yama and Nirmāṇarati heavens. Its inner department is the Pure Land of Maitreya who, like Śākyamuni and all Buddhas, is reborn there before descending to earth as the next Buddha; his life there is 4,000 Tuṣita years (each day there being equal to 4000 earth-years) 584 million such years. |
利波波 see styles |
lì bō bō li4 bo1 bo1 li po po Ribaba |
離波多; 黎婆多; 頡隸伐多 Revata; Raivata. (1) A Brahman hermit; one of the disciples of Śākyamuni, to be reborn as Samanta-prabhāsa. (2) President of the second synod, a native of Sāṅkāśya. (3) A contemporary of Aśoka, mentioned in connection with the third synod. Cf. Eitel. |
劫比他 see styles |
jié bǐ tā jie2 bi3 ta1 chieh pi t`a chieh pi ta Kōhita |
Kapittha. (1) An ancient kingdom of Central India, also called 僧佉尸 Saṃkāśya. (2) A Brahman of Vṛji who ill-treated the Buddhists of his time, was reborn as a fish, and was finally converted, by Śākyamuni, Eitel. |
劫賓那 劫宾那 see styles |
jié bīn nà jie2 bin1 na4 chieh pin na Kōhinna |
Kapphiṇa; also 劫比拏王; 劫庀那 (or 劫比那, or 劫譬那); or Kampilla, 金毗羅; whose monastic name was Mahā-kapphiṇa; intp. as 房宿 (born) under the constellation Scorpio; he is said to have understood astronomy and been king of Southern Kośala; he became a disciple of Śākyamuni and is to be reborn as Samantaprabhāsa Buddha. |
受生已 see styles |
shòu shēng yǐ shou4 sheng1 yi3 shou sheng i jushōi |
having been reborn |
大生主 see styles |
dà shēng zhǔ da4 sheng1 zhu3 ta sheng chu Daishōshu |
Mahāprajāpatī 摩訶波闍婆提, great "lady of the living", the older translation being 大愛道 the great way (or exemplar) of love; also 衆主 head of the community (of nuns), i.e. Gautami the aunt and nurse of Śākyamuni, the first nun. She is to be reborn as a Buddha named Sarvasattvapriyadarśanā. |
大高王 see styles |
dà gāo wáng da4 gao1 wang2 ta kao wang Daikō Ō |
Abhyudgata-rāja. Great august monarch, name of the kalpa in which Śubha-vyūha 妙莊嚴王, who is not known in the older literature, is to be reborn as a Buddha. |
懈慢國 懈慢国 see styles |
xiè màn guó xie4 man4 guo2 hsieh man kuo keman koku |
懈慢界 A country that lies between this world and the Western Paradise, in which those who are reborn become slothful and proud, and have no desire to be reborn in Paradise. |
死生智 see styles |
sǐ shēng zhì si3 sheng1 zhi4 ssu sheng chih shishō chi |
knowledge of where beings will die and be reborn |
河鼻旨 see styles |
hé bí zhǐ he2 bi2 zhi3 ho pi chih Kabishi |
Avīci, the hell of uninterrupted suffering, where the sufferers die and are reborn to torture without intermission. |
生上地 see styles |
shēng shàng dì sheng1 shang4 di4 sheng shang ti shō jōchi |
to be reborn into a higher realm of existence |
當往生 当往生 see styles |
dāng wǎng shēng dang1 wang3 sheng1 tang wang sheng tō ōshō |
will be reborn |
目犍連 目犍连 see styles |
mù jiān lián mu4 jian1 lian2 mu chien lien Mokkenren |
目連; 摩訶目犍連 (or 摩訶羅夜那); 大目犍連 (or 大目乾連) ; 沒特伽羅子 (or 沒力伽羅子); 目伽略 (Mahā-) Maudgalyāyana, or Maudgalaputra; explained by Mudga 胡豆 lentil, kidney-bean. One of the ten chief disciples of Śākyamuni, specially noted for miraculous powers; formerly an ascetic, he agreed with Śāriputra that whichever first found the truth would reveal it to the other. Śāriputra found the Buddha and brought Maudgalyāyana to him; the former is placed on the Buddha's right, the latter on his left. He is also known as 拘栗 Kolita, and when reborn as Buddha his title is to be Tamāla-patra-candana-gandha. In China Mahāsthāmaprapta is accounted a canonization of Maudgalyāyana. Several centuries afterwards there were two other great leaders of the Buddhist church bearing the same name, v. Eitel. |
知足天 see styles |
zhī zú tiān zhi1 zu2 tian1 chih tsu t`ien chih tsu tien Chisoku Ten |
(知足) Tuṣita, the fourth devaloka, Maitreya's heaven of full knowledge, where all bodhisattvas are reborn before rebirth as buddhas; the inner court is知足院. |
羅睺羅 罗睺罗 see styles |
luó huó luó luo2 huo2 luo2 lo huo lo Ragora |
Rāhula, the eldest son of Śākyamuni and Yaśodharā; also羅睺; 羅吼; 羅云; 羅雲; 曷怙羅 or 何怙羅 or 羅怙羅. He is supposed to have been in the womb for six years and born when his father attained buddhahood; also said to have been born during an eclipse, and thus acquired his name, though it is defined in other ways; his father did not see him till he was six years old. He became a disciple of the Hīnayāna, but is said to have become a Mahāyānist when his father preached this final perfect doctrine, a statement gainsaid by his being recognized as founder of the Vaibhāṣika school. He is to be reborn as the eldest son of every buddha, hence is sometimes called the son of Ānanda. |
阿羅漢 阿罗汉 see styles |
ā luó hàn a1 luo2 han4 a lo han arakan あらかん |
arhat (Sanskrit); a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism) {Buddh} arhat arhan, arhat, lohan; worthy, venerable; an enlightened, saintly man; the highest type or ideal saint in Hīnayāna in contrast with the bodhisattva as the saint in Mahāyāna; intp. as 應供worthy of worship, or respect; intp. as 殺賊 arihat, arihan, slayer of the enemy, i.e. of mortality; for the arhat enters nirvana 不生 not to be reborn, having destroyed the karma of reincarnation; he is also in the stage of 不學 no longer learning, having attained. Also 羅漢; 阿盧漢; 阿羅訶 or 阿羅呵; 阿梨呵 (or 阿黎呵); 羅呵, etc.; cf. 阿夷; 阿畧. |
阿那含 see styles |
ān à hán an1 a4 han2 an a han anagon |
(or 阿那鋡); 阿那伽迷 (or 阿那伽彌) anāgāmin, the 不來 non-coming, or 不還 non-returning arhat or saint, who will not be reborn in this world, but in the rūpa and arūpa heavens, where he will attain to nirvana. |
頻來果 频来果 see styles |
pín lái guǒ pin2 lai2 guo3 p`in lai kuo pin lai kuo |
Once more to be reborn, v. 斯 sakṛdāgāmin. |
鬼子母 see styles |
guǐ zǐ mǔ gui3 zi3 mu3 kuei tzu mu |
Hāritī, 訶梨帝 intp. as pleased, or pleasing. A 'woman who having vowed to devour all the babies at Rādjagriha was reborn as a rākshasī, and gave birth to 500 children, one of which she was to devour every day. Converted by Śākyamuni she entered a convent. Her image is to be seen in all nunneries'. Eitel. Another account is that she is the mother of 500 demons, and that from being an evil goddess or spirit she was converted to become a protectress of Buddhism. |
リボーン see styles |
riboon リボーン |
(personal name) Reborn (anime, manga character) |
一眼之龜 一眼之龟 see styles |
yī yǎn zhī guī yi1 yan3 zhi1 gui1 i yen chih kuei ichigen no kame |
A sea turtle with only one eye, and that underneath, entered a hollow in a floating log; the log, tossed by the waves, happened to roll over, whereupon the turtle momentarily saw the sun and moon; an illustration of the rareness of the appearance of a Buddha; also of the difficulty of being reborn as a man. |
三種淸淨 三种淸淨 see styles |
sān zhǒng qīng jìng san1 zhong3 qing1 jing4 san chung ch`ing ching san chung ching ching sanshu shōjō |
The three purities of a bodhisattva— a mind free from all impurity, a body pure because never to be reborn save by transformation, an appearance 相 perfectly pure and adorned. |
不更惡趣 不更恶趣 see styles |
bù gēn gè qù bu4 gen1 ge4 qu4 pu ken ko ch`ü pu ken ko chü fukyō akushu |
not reborn into evil destinies |
不滅不生 不灭不生 see styles |
bù miè bù shēng bu4 mie4 bu4 sheng1 pu mieh pu sheng fumetsu fushō |
anirodhānupāda, neither dying nor being reborn, immortal, v. 不生. |
五闡提羅 五阐提罗 see styles |
wǔ chǎn tí luó wu3 chan3 ti2 luo2 wu ch`an t`i lo wu chan ti lo go sendaira |
The five ṣaṇḍhilās, i. e. five bad monks who died, went to the hells, and were reborn as ṣaṇḍhilās or imperfect males; also 五扇提羅. |
八福生處 八福生处 see styles |
bā fú shēng chù ba1 fu2 sheng1 chu4 pa fu sheng ch`u pa fu sheng chu hachifuku shōsho |
The eight happy conditions in which he may be reborn who keeps the five commands and the ten good ways and bestows alms: (1) rich and honourable among men; (2) in the heavens of the four deva kings; (3) the Indra heavens; (4) Suyāma heavens; (5) Tuṣita heaven; (6) 化樂nirmāṇarati heaven, i.e. the fifth devaloka; (7) 他化 Paranirmita-vaśavartin, i.e. the sixth devaloka heaven; (8) the brahma-heavens. 八福田 The eight fields for cultivating blessedness: Buddhas; arhats (or saints); preaching monks (upādhyāya); teachers (ācārya); friars; father; mother; the sick. Buddhas, arhats, and friars (or monks in general) are termed 敬田 reverence-fields; the sick are 悲田 compassion-fields; the rest are 恩田grace- or gratitude- fields. Another group is: to make roads and wells; canals and bridges; repair dangerous roads; be dutiful to parents; support monks; tend the sick; save from disaster or distress; provide for a quinquennial assembly. Another: serving the Three Precious Ones, i.e. the Buddha; the Law; the Order; parents; the monks as teachers; the poor; the sick; animals. |
卽便往生 see styles |
jí biàn wǎng shēng ji2 bian4 wang3 sheng1 chi pien wang sheng sokuben ōjō |
to be directly reborn |
卽得往生 see styles |
jí dé wǎng shēng ji2 de2 wang3 sheng1 chi te wang sheng sokudoku ōjō |
to be reborn |
四種死生 四种死生 see styles |
sì zhǒng sǐ shēng si4 zhong3 si3 sheng1 ssu chung ssu sheng shi shu shishō |
Four kinds of rebirth dependent on present deeds: from obscurity and poverty to be reborn in the same condition; from obscurity and poverty to be reborn in light and honour; from light and honour to be reborn in obscurity and poverty; from light and honour to be reborn in the heavens. |
執金剛神 执金刚神 see styles |
zhí jīn gāng shén zhi2 jin1 gang1 shen2 chih chin kang shen shukongoujin; shuukongoujin; shikkongoujin / shukongojin; shukongojin; shikkongojin しゅこんごうじん; しゅうこんごうじん; しっこんごうじん |
{Buddh} (See 金剛杵,仁王) Vajradhara (vajra-wielding gods) vajrapāṇi, vajradhara. Any deva-holder of the vajra. (1) Indra, who in a former incarnation took an oath to defend Buddhism, was reborn as king of the yakṣas, hence he and his yakṣas carry vajras. (2) Mañjuśrī as the spiritual reflex of the Dhyāni Buddha Akṣobhya. (3) A popular deity, the terror of all enemies of Buddhist believers, specially worshipped in exorcisms and sorcery by the Yoga school. |
変成男子 see styles |
henjounanshi / henjonanshi へんじょうなんし |
{Buddh} a woman being reborn as a man (in order to qualify for Buddhahood) |
已離欲者 已离欲者 see styles |
yǐ lí yù zhě yi3 li2 yu4 zhe3 i li yü che i riyoku sha |
Those who have abandoned the desire-realm; divided into two classes, 異生 ordinary people who have left desire, but will be born into the six gati; 聖者 the saints, who will not be reborn into the desire-realm; e. g. non-Buddhists and Buddhists. |
念仏往生 see styles |
nenbutsuoujou / nenbutsuojo ねんぶつおうじょう |
(n,vs,vi) {Buddh} (See 念仏・1,浄土・1) being reborn in the Pure Land through the invocation of the nembutsu |
念佛往生 see styles |
niàn fó wǎng shēng nian4 fo2 wang3 sheng1 nien fo wang sheng nenbutsu ōjō |
This is the basis or primary cause of such salvation (念佛三昧). |
息忌伽彌 息忌伽弥 see styles |
xí jì qié mí xi2 ji4 qie2 mi2 hsi chi ch`ieh mi hsi chi chieh mi sokukigyami |
息忌陀伽迷 sakṛdāgāmin, he who is to be reborn only once before entering nirvana. |
意念往生 see styles |
yì niàn wǎng shēng yi4 nian4 wang3 sheng1 i nien wang sheng inen ōjō |
By thought and remembrance or invocation of Amitābha to enter into his Pure Land. |
應不更生 应不更生 see styles |
yìng bù gēng shēng ying4 bu4 geng1 sheng1 ying pu keng sheng ō fu kyōshō |
should not be reborn |
敗壞菩薩 败坏菩萨 see styles |
bài huài pú sà bai4 huai4 pu2 sa4 pai huai p`u sa pai huai pu sa baie bosatsu |
Bodhisattvas who defeat their proper end of becoming buddha, and who are reborn in lower positions, e.g. as kings or princes, of as dragon-kings, etc. |
死に変る see styles |
shinikawaru しにかわる |
(v5r,vi) to die and be reborn as something else |
生般涅槃 see styles |
shēng pán niè pán sheng1 pan2 nie4 pan2 sheng p`an nieh p`an sheng pan nieh pan shō hannehan |
one who attains final nirvāṇa when being reborn in the form realm |
脫胎成仙 脱胎成仙 see styles |
tuō tāi chéng xiān tuo1 tai1 cheng2 xian1 t`o t`ai ch`eng hsien to tai cheng hsien |
reborn as immortal |
驗生人中 验生人中 see styles |
yàn shēng rén zhōng yan4 sheng1 ren2 zhong1 yen sheng jen chung |
An inquiry into the mode of a person's death, to judge whether he will be reborn as a man, and so on with the other possible destinies, e.g. 驗生地獄 whether he will be reborn in the hells. |
驗生地獄 see styles |
yàn shēng dì yù yan4 sheng1 di4 yu4 yen sheng ti yü |
to examine as to whether someone will be reborn in the hells |
五百世無手 五百世无手 see styles |
wǔ bǎi shì wú shǒu wu3 bai3 shi4 wu2 shou3 wu pai shih wu shou gohyakuse mushu |
A disciple who even passes the wine decanter to another person will be reborn without hands for 500 generations; v. 梵網經下. |
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