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There are 7 total results for your 杀生 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

殺生


杀生

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shā shēng
    sha1 sheng1
sha sheng
 sesshou / sessho
    せっしょう
to take the life of a living creature
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) killing; destruction of life; (adjectival noun) (2) cruel; heartless; callous; brutal; (female given name) Setsuna
To take life, kill the living, or any conscious being; the taking of human life offends against the major commands, of animal life against the less stringent commands. Suicide also leads to severe penalties.

不殺生


不杀生

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bù shā shēng
    bu4 sha1 sheng1
pu sha sheng
 fusesshou / fusessho
    ふせっしょう
{Buddh} (See アヒンサー) ahimsa; abstinence from taking life; principle of non-violence in Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.
prāṇātipātād vairamaṇī (virati). The first commandment, Thou shalt not kill the living.

殺生具


杀生具

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shā shēng jù
    sha1 sheng1 ju4
sha sheng chü
 sesshōgu
lethal weapons

殺生戒


杀生戒

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shā shēng jiè
    sha1 sheng1 jie4
sha sheng chieh
 sesshō kai
precept forbidding the taking of life

不殺生戒


不杀生戒

see styles
bù shā shēng jiè
    bu4 sha1 sheng1 jie4
pu sha sheng chieh
 fu sesshō kai
precept forbidding the taking of life

六種殺生


六种杀生

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liù zhǒng shā shēng
    liu4 zhong3 sha1 sheng1
liu chung sha sheng
 rokushu sesshō
six kinds of circumstances related to killing

方便殺生


方便杀生

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fāng biàn shā shēng
    fang1 bian4 sha1 sheng1
fang pien sha sheng
 hōben sesshō
The right of great Bodhisattvas, knowing every one's karma, to kill without sinning, e. g. in order to prevent a person from committing sin involving unintermitted suffering, or to aid him in reaching one of the higher reincarnations.

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 7 results for "杀生" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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