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There are 9 total results for your 賢聖 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

賢聖


贤圣

see styles
xián shèng
    xian2 sheng4
hsien sheng
 kensei / kense
    けんせい
(personal name) Kensei
Those who are noted for goodness, and those who are also noted for wisdom, or insight; the xian are still of ordinary human standard, the sheng transcend them in wisdom and character; the attainments from 見道 upwards are those of the sheng; the xian is on the moral plane, and has not eliminated illusion; the sheng has cut of illusion and has insight into absolute reality. The Mahāyāna has three stages for the xian and ten for the sheng; the Hīnayāna has seven for each.

賢聖族


贤圣族

see styles
xián shèng zú
    xian2 sheng4 zu2
hsien sheng tsu
 kenshō zoku
noble usages

八賢聖


八贤圣

see styles
bā xián shèng
    ba1 xian2 sheng4
pa hsien sheng
 hakkenjō
eight [stages] of saints

謗賢聖


谤贤圣

see styles
bàng xián shèng
    bang4 xian2 sheng4
pang hsien sheng
 hō kenshō
to denigrate worthies and sages

七百賢聖


七百贤圣

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qī bǎi xián shèng
    qi1 bai3 xian2 sheng4
ch`i pai hsien sheng
    chi pai hsien sheng
 shichihyaku kenjō
The 700 disciples who met the second synod at Vaiśālī; also 七百結集.

八方賢聖


八方贤圣

see styles
bā fāng xián shèng
    ba1 fang1 xian2 sheng4
pa fang hsien sheng
 hachihō kenshō
worthies and sages of the eight directions

十八賢聖


十八贤圣

see styles
shí bā xián shèng
    shi2 ba1 xian2 sheng4
shih pa hsien sheng
 jūhachi kenjō
eighteen wise sages

謗賢聖者


谤贤圣者

see styles
bàng xián shèng zhě
    bang4 xian2 sheng4 zhe3
pang hsien sheng che
 hōken shōja
reviling the noble ones

二十七賢聖


二十七贤圣

see styles
èr shí qī xián shèng
    er4 shi2 qi1 xian2 sheng4
erh shih ch`i hsien sheng
    erh shih chi hsien sheng
 nijūshichi kenjō
twenty-seven sages

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

This page contains 9 results for "賢聖" 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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