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There are 6 total results for your 见性 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

見性


见性

see styles
jiàn xìng
    jian4 xing4
chien hsing
 kenshou / kensho
    けんしょう

More info & calligraphy:

Kensho - Initial Enlightenment
self-awareness; consciousness of one's own character
To behold the Buddha-nature within oneself, a common saying of the Chan (Zen) or Intuitive School.

創見性


创见性

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chuàng jiàn xìng
    chuang4 jian4 xing4
ch`uang chien hsing
    chuang chien hsing
original (idea, discovery etc)

見性公案


见性公案

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jiàn xìng gon gàn
    jian4 xing4 gon1 gan4
chien hsing gon kan
 kenshō kōan
gong-an (kōan) of seeing the true nature

見性悟道


见性悟道

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jiàn xìng wù dào
    jian4 xing4 wu4 dao4
chien hsing wu tao
 kenshō godō
seeing one's true nature and awakening to the Way

見性成佛


见性成佛

see styles
jiàn xìng chéng fó
    jian4 xing4 cheng2 fo2
chien hsing ch`eng fo
    chien hsing cheng fo
 kenshō jōbutsu
to see one's own nature and (directly) accomplish buddhahood

直指人心見性成佛


直指人心见性成佛

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zhí zhǐ rén xīn jiàn xìng chéng fó
    zhi2 zhi3 ren2 xin1 jian4 xing4 cheng2 fo2
chih chih jen hsin chien hsing ch`eng fo
    chih chih jen hsin chien hsing cheng fo
 jikishi ninshin kenshō jōbutsu
to point directly at the minds of men (so that they might) see the nature and achieve buddhahood

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

This page contains 6 results for "见性" 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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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