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There are 8 total results for your 少林寺 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

少林寺

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shào lín sì
    shao4 lin2 si4
shao lin ssu
 shourinji / shorinji
    しょうりんじ

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Shaolin Temple
Shaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks
(place-name) Shaolin Temple (China); Shourinji
The monastery at 少室 in 登封 Dengfeng xian, Henanfu, where Bodhidharma sat with his face to a wall for nine years.

少林寺流

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 shourinjiryuu / shorinjiryu
    しょうりんじりゅう

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Shorin Ji Ryu
{MA} (See 少林流) Shorin-ryu; Okinawa school of karate

少林寺拳法

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 shourinjikenpou / shorinjikenpo
    しょうりんじけんぽう

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Shorinji Kempo / Kenpo
(See 少林拳) Shorinji Kempo (modern Japanese martial art based on Shaolin kung fu)

少林寺町東

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 shourinjichouhigashi / shorinjichohigashi
    しょうりんじちょうひがし
(place-name) Shourinjichōhigashi

少林寺町西

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 shourinjichounishi / shorinjichonishi
    しょうりんじちょうにし
(place-name) Shourinjichōnishi

少林寺拳法連盟

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 shourinjikenpourenmei / shorinjikenporenme
    しょうりんじけんぽうれんめい
(org) ShorinjiKempo Federation Foundation; (o) ShorinjiKempo Federation Foundation

少林寺拳法世界連合

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 shourinjikenpousekairengou / shorinjikenposekairengo
    しょうりんじけんぽうせかいれんごう
(org) World Shorinji Kempo Organization; (o) World Shorinji Kempo Organization

全日本少林寺気功協会

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 zennihonshourinjikikoukyoukai / zennihonshorinjikikokyokai
    ぜんにほんしょうりんじきこうきょうかい
(org) All Japan Shaolin Temple Qigong Association; (o) All Japan Shaolin Temple Qigong Association
This page contains 8 results for "少林寺" 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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