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There are 6 total results for your 雲門 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

雲門


云门

see styles
yún mén
    yun2 men2
yün men
 unmon
    うんもん
(personal name) Unmon
The Cloud-gate monastery in Guangdong, from which 文偃 Wenyan derived his title; his name was 張雪峯 Zhang Xuefeng; he lived early in the tenth century and founded the 雲門宗 (雲門禪宗), v. 三句.

雲門宗


云门宗

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yún mén zōng
    yun2 men2 zong1
yün men tsung
 unmonshuu / unmonshu
    うんもんしゅう
{Buddh} Yunmen School
Yunmen house

雲門寺


云门寺

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yún mén sì
    yun2 men2 si4
yün men ssu
 unkadoji
    うんかどじ
(personal name) Unkadoji
Unmunsa

雲門廣錄


云门广录

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yún mén guǎng lù
    yun2 men2 guang3 lu4
yün men kuang lu
 Ummon kōroku
Yunmen guanglu

雲門一字關


云门一字关

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yún mén yī zì guān
    yun2 men2 yi1 zi4 guan1
yün men i tzu kuan
 Unmon ichiji kan
Yunmen's one-word barrier

雲門匡眞禪師廣錄


云门匡眞禅师广录

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yún mén kuāng zhēn chán shī guǎng lù
    yun2 men2 kuang1 zhen1 chan2 shi1 guang3 lu4
yün men k`uang chen ch`an shih kuang lu
    yün men kuang chen chan shih kuang lu
 Ummon kyōshin zenshi kōroku
Extensive Record of Yunmen Kuangzhen

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

This page contains 6 results for "雲門" 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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