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There are 6 total results for your 明藏 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

明藏

see styles
míng zàng
    ming2 zang4
ming tsang
 Myō zō
The Buddhist canon of the Ming dynasty; there were two editions, one the Southern at Nanjing made by T'ai Tsu, the northern at Beijing by Tai Tsung. A later edition was produced in the reign of Shen Tsung (Wan Li), which became the standard in Japan.

光明藏

see styles
guāng míng zàng
    guang1 ming2 zang4
kuang ming tsang
 kōmyō zō
storehouse of brilliance

持明藏

see styles
chí míng zàng
    chi2 ming2 zang4
ch`ih ming tsang
    chih ming tsang
 jimyō zō
The canon of the dhāraṇīs; vidyādhara-piṭaka.

無明藏


无明藏

see styles
wú míng zàng
    wu2 ming2 zang4
wu ming tsang
 mumyō zō
The storehouse of ignorance, from which issues all illusion and misery.

大乘離文字普光明藏經


大乘离文字普光明藏经

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dà shèng lí wén zì pǔ guāng míng zàng jīng
    da4 sheng4 li2 wen2 zi4 pu3 guang1 ming2 zang4 jing1
ta sheng li wen tzu p`u kuang ming tsang ching
    ta sheng li wen tzu pu kuang ming tsang ching
 Daijō rimoji fukōmyōzō kyō
Dasheng liwenzi puguang mingzang jing

大乘遍照光明藏無字法門經


大乘遍照光明藏无字法门经

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dà shèng biàn zhào guāng míng zàng wú zì fǎ mén jīng
    da4 sheng4 bian4 zhao4 guang1 ming2 zang4 wu2 zi4 fa3 men2 jing1
ta sheng pien chao kuang ming tsang wu tzu fa men ching
 Daijō henjō kōmyō zō muji hōmon kyō
Great Vehicle Sūtra of the No-Letter Casket from the Store of Vairocana

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

This page contains 6 results for "明藏" 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

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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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