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There are 6 total results for your 梵志 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

梵志

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fàn zhì
    fan4 zhi4
fan chih
 bonji
brahmacārin. 'studying sacred learning; practising continence or chastity.' M.W. A brahmacārī is a 'young Brahman in the first āśrama or period of his life' (M. W.); there are four such periods. A Buddhist ascetic with his will set on 梵 purity, also intp. as nirvana.

四梵志

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sì fàn zhì
    si4 fan4 zhi4
ssu fan chih
 shi bonshi
The four Brahmacārins who resolved to escape death each on mountain, sea, in the air, or the: market place, and yet failed; v. 山.

梵志占相

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fàn zhì zhàn xiàng
    fan4 zhi4 zhan4 xiang4
fan chih chan hsiang
 bonshi sensō
prophesy of the Brahman (regarding Gautama's religious capacities)

螺髻梵志

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luó jì fàn zhì
    luo2 ji4 fan4 zhi4
lo chi fan chih
 rakei bonshi
conch-tufted Brahmā

尼拘陀梵志經


尼拘陀梵志经

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ní jū tuó fàn zhì jīng
    ni2 ju1 tuo2 fan4 zhi4 jing1
ni chü t`o fan chih ching
    ni chü to fan chih ching
 Nikuda bonshi kyō
*Nyagrodha-brāhmaṇa-sūtra

佛開解梵志阿颰經


佛开解梵志阿颰经

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fó kāi jiě fàn zhì ā bá jīng
    fo2 kai1 jie3 fan4 zhi4 a1 ba2 jing1
fo k`ai chieh fan chih a pa ching
    fo kai chieh fan chih a pa ching
 Butsu kaige bonshi Abatsu kyō
Sūtra on the Buddha's Enlightening of Ambaṭṭha

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

This page contains 6 results for "梵志" 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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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