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There are 7 total results for your 法雨 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

法雨

see styles
fǎ yǔ
    fa3 yu3
fa yü
 houu / hou
    ほうう
shower of dharma; Buddhism flowing forth; (surname) Minori
The rain of Buddha-truth which fertilizes all beings.

大法雨

see styles
dà fǎ yǔ
    da4 fa3 yu3
ta fa yü
 dai hōu
The raining, i.e. preaching, of the Mahāyāna.

妙法雨

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miào fǎ yǔ
    miao4 fa3 yu3
miao fa yü
 myōhō u
marvelous dharma-rain

時法雨


时法雨

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shí fǎ yǔ
    shi2 fa3 yu3
shih fa yü
 ji hōu
the timely rain of the Dharma

微妙法雨

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wēi miào fǎ yǔ
    wei1 miao4 fa3 yu3
wei miao fa yü
 mimyō hōu
rain of the fine dharma

甘露法雨

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gān lù fǎ yǔ
    gan1 lu4 fa3 yu3
kan lu fa yü
 kanro hōu
sweet dharma-rain

雨大法雨

see styles
yǔ dà fǎ yǔ
    yu3 da4 fa3 yu3
yü ta fa yü
 u daihō u
to rain the great dharma rain

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

This page contains 7 results for "法雨" 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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