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There are 6 total results for your 天鼓 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

天鼓

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tiān gǔ
    tian1 gu3
t`ien ku
    tien ku
 tenko
    てんこ
(given name) Tenko
The deva drum— in the 善法 Good Law Hall of the Trayas-triṃśas heavens, which sounds of itself, warning the inhabitants of the thirty-three heavens that even their life is impermanent and subject to karma: at the sound of the drum Indra preaches against excess. Hence it is a title of Buddha as the great law-drum, who warns, exhorts, and encourages the good and frightens the evil and the demons.

天鼓音

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tiān gǔ yīn
    tian1 gu3 yin1
t`ien ku yin
    tien ku yin
 Tenko on
雲自在燈王 Dundubhisvara-rāja. Lord of the sound of celestial drums, i. e. the thunder. Name of each of 2, 000 kotis of Buddhas who attained Buddhahood.

天鼓雷音

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tiān gǔ léi yīn
    tian1 gu3 lei2 yin1
t`ien ku lei yin
    tien ku lei yin
 Tenku raion
Divyadundubhimeganirghoṣa

猶如天鼓


犹如天鼓

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yóu rú tiān gǔ
    you2 ru2 tian1 gu3
yu ju t`ien ku
    yu ju tien ku
 yunyo tenko
just like a heavenly drum

天鼓雷音佛

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tiān gǔ léi yīn fó
    tian1 gu3 lei2 yin1 fo2
t`ien ku lei yin fo
    tien ku lei yin fo
 Tenko raion butsu
鼓音如來 Divyadundubhimeghanirghosa. One of the five Buddhas in the Garbhadhātu maṇḍala, on the north of the central group; said to be one of the dharmakāya of Sakyamuai, his 等流身 or universal emanation body; and is known as 不動尊 corresponding with Akṣobhya, cf. 五智如來 and 大日經疏 4.

其聲雷震猶如天鼓


其声雷震犹如天鼓

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qí shēng léi zhèn yóu rú tiān gǔ
    qi2 sheng1 lei2 zhen4 you2 ru2 tian1 gu3
ch`i sheng lei chen yu ju t`ien ku
    chi sheng lei chen yu ju tien ku
 kishō raishin yunyo tenko
the sound of which is like thunderous a heavenly drum

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

This page contains 6 results for "天鼓" 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.
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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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