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There are 13 total results for your 那伽 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

那伽

see styles
nà qié
    na4 qie2
na ch`ieh
    na chieh
 naka
    なか
(female given name) Naka
nāga. Snake, dragon, elephant. It is tr. by 龍 dragon and by 象 elephant. (1) As dragon it represents the chief of the scaly reptiles; it can disappear or be manifest, increase or decrease, lengthen or shrink; in spring it mounts in the sky and in winter enters the earth. The dragon is of many kinds. Dragons are regarded as beneficent, bringing the rains and guarding the heavens (again Draco); they control rivers and lakes, and hibernate in the deep. nāga and mahānāga are titles of a Buddha, (also of those freed from reincarnation) because of his powers, or because like the dragon he soars above earthly desires and ties. One of his former reincarnations was a powerful poisonous dragon which, out of pity, permitted itself to be skinned alive and its flesh eaten by worms. (2) A race of serpent-worshippers.

那伽子

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 nagako
    ながこ
(female given name) Nagako

奔那伽

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bēn nà qié
    ben1 na4 qie2
pen na ch`ieh
    pen na chieh
 honnaga
puṣpanāga, the flowering dragon-tree under which Maitreya is said to have attained enlightenment.

真那伽

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 manaka
    まなか
(See 香道・こうどう) incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Malacca); (female given name) Manaka

那伽犀那

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nà qié xīn à
    na4 qie2 xin1 a4
na ch`ieh hsin a
    na chieh hsin a
 Nagasaina
Nāgasena

剌那伽羅


剌那伽罗

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làn à qié luó
    lan4 a4 qie2 luo2
lan a ch`ieh lo
    lan a chieh lo
 Ranakara
Ratnākara, a 'jewel-mine, the ocean' (M. W.), intp. jewel-heap; name of a Buddha and Bodhisattva; the 112th Buddha of the present kalpa; also of 'a native of Vaiśālī, contemporary of Śākyamuni.'

摩訶那伽


摩诃那伽

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mó hēn à qié
    mo2 hen1 a4 qie2
mo hen a ch`ieh
    mo hen a chieh
 makanaga
Mahānāga, the great nāga, 'one of the elephants that support the world.' M.W. A title of a Buddha, or of an arhat.

陀那伽他

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tuó nà qié tā
    tuo2 na4 qie2 ta1
t`o na ch`ieh t`a
    to na chieh ta
 danakata
dānagāthā, or dakṣiṇāgāthā, the verse or utterance of the almsgiver.

迦那伽牟尼

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jiān à qié móu ní
    jian1 a4 qie2 mou2 ni2
chien a ch`ieh mou ni
    chien a chieh mou ni
 Kanakamuni
Kanakamuni, v. 拘那牟尼.

阿娑頗那伽


阿娑颇那伽

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ā suō pǒ nà qié
    a1 suo1 po3 na4 qie2
a so p`o na ch`ieh
    a so po na chieh
 ashapanaka
āśvāsa-apānaka, contemplation by counting the breathings; c.f. 阿那波那.

阿波那伽低

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ā bō nà qié dī
    a1 bo1 na4 qie2 di1
a po na ch`ieh ti
    a po na chieh ti
 ahanakatei
aparagati, the three evil paths, i.e. animal, hungry ghost, hell, but some say only the path to the hells.

那伽閼剌樹那


那伽阏剌树那

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nà qié è là shùn à
    na4 qie2 e4 la4 shun4 a4
na ch`ieh o la shun a
    na chieh o la shun a
 Nakaarajuna
(or 那伽閼曷樹那) Nāgārjuna, 龍樹 the dragon-arjuna tree, or nāgakrośana, intp. probably wrongly as 龍猛 dragon-fierce. One of the 'four suns' and reputed founder of Mahāyāna (but see 阿 for Aśvaghoṣa), native of South India, the fourteenth patriarch; he is said to have cut off his head as an offering. 'He probably flourished in the latter half of the second century A. D.' Eliot, v. 龍樹. He founded the Mādhyamika or 中 School, generally considered as advocating doctrines of negation or nihilism, but his aim seems to have been a reality beyond the limitations of positive and negative, the identification of contraries in a higher synthesis, e. g. birth and death, existence and non-existence, eternal and non-eternal; v. 中論.

山拖那伽梨柯部

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shān tuō nà qié lí kē bù
    shan1 tuo1 na4 qie2 li2 ke1 bu4
shan t`o na ch`ieh li k`o pu
    shan to na chieh li ko pu
 Santanakarikabu
Six Cities School

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

This page contains 13 results for "那伽" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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