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There are 6 total results for your 方便善 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

方便善

see styles
fāng biàn shàn
    fang1 bian4 shan4
fang pien shan
 hōben zen
virtue based on present effort

方便善巧

see styles
fāng biàn shàn qiǎo
    fang1 bian4 shan4 qiao3
fang pien shan ch`iao
    fang pien shan chiao
 hōben zenkō
skillful means

成熟方便善巧

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chéng shóu fāng biàn shàn qiǎo
    cheng2 shou2 fang1 bian4 shan4 qiao3
ch`eng shou fang pien shan ch`iao
    cheng shou fang pien shan chiao
 jōjuku hōben zenkō
skilful means for bringing to maturity

方便善巧波羅蜜多


方便善巧波罗蜜多

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fāng biàn shàn qiǎo bō luó mì duō
    fang1 bian4 shan4 qiao3 bo1 luo2 mi4 duo1
fang pien shan ch`iao po lo mi to
    fang pien shan chiao po lo mi to
 hōben zengyō haramita
transcendent practice of skillful means

如來方便善巧呪經


如来方便善巧呪经

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rú lái fāng biàn shàn qiǎo zhòu jīng
    ru2 lai2 fang1 bian4 shan4 qiao3 zhou4 jing1
ju lai fang pien shan ch`iao chou ching
    ju lai fang pien shan chiao chou ching
 Nyorai hōben zenkōju kyō
Rulai fangbian shanqiaozhou jing

於說所作方便善巧


于说所作方便善巧

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yú shuō suǒ zuò fāng biàn shàn qiǎo
    yu2 shuo1 suo3 zuo4 fang1 bian4 shan4 qiao3
yü shuo so tso fang pien shan ch`iao
    yü shuo so tso fang pien shan chiao
 o setsu shosa hōben zengyō
skilful means derived from the teaching

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

This page contains 6 results for "方便善" 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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