There are 48 total results for your bodhidharma search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
坐禪 坐禅 see styles |
zuò chán zuo4 chan2 tso ch`an tso chan zazen |
More info & calligraphy: Sit in MeditationTo sit in dhyāna, i.e. abstract meditation, fixed abstraction, contemplation; its introduction to China is attributed to Bodhidharma (though it came earlier), and its extension to Tiantai. |
禪宗 禅宗 see styles |
chán zōng chan2 zong1 ch`an tsung chan tsung Zenshū |
More info & calligraphy: Zen BuddhismThe Chan, meditative or intuitional, sect usually said to have been established in China by Bodhidharma, v. 達, the twenty-eighth patriarch, who brought the tradition of the Buddha-mind from India. Cf. 楞 13 Laṅkāvatāra sūtra. This sect, believing in direct enlightenment, disregarded ritual and sūtras and depended upon the inner light and personal influence for the propagation of its tenets, founding itself on the esoteric tradition supposed to have been imparted to Kāśyapa by the Buddha, who indicated his meaning by plucking a flower without further explanation. Kāśyapa smiled in apprehension and is supposed to have passed on this mystic method to the patriarchs. The successor of Bodhidharma was 慧可 Huike, and he was succeeded by 僧璨 Sengcan; 道信 Daoxin; 弘忍 Hongren; 慧能 Huineng, and 神秀 Shenxiu, the sect dividing under the two latter into the southern and northern schools: the southern school became prominent, producing 南嶽 Nanyue and 靑原 Qingyuan, the former succeeded by 馬祖 Mazu, the latter by 石頭 Shitou. From Mazu's school arose the five later schools, v. 禪門. |
少林寺 see styles |
shào lín sì shao4 lin2 si4 shao lin ssu shourinji / shorinji しょうりんじ |
More info & calligraphy: Shaolin Temple(place-name) Shaolin Temple (China); Shourinji The monastery at 少室 in 登封 Dengfeng xian, Henanfu, where Bodhidharma sat with his face to a wall for nine years. |
菩提達磨 菩提达磨 see styles |
pú tí dá mó pu2 ti2 da2 mo2 p`u t`i ta mo pu ti ta mo bodaidaruma ぼだいだるま |
More info & calligraphy: BodhidharmaBodhidharma, commonly known as Damo, v. 達; reputed as the founder of the Chan (Zen) or Intuitional or Mystic School. His original name is given as 菩提多羅 Bodhitara. |
面壁九年 see styles |
miàn bì jiǔ nián mian4 bi4 jiu3 nian2 mien pi chiu nien menpekikunen めんぺきくねん |
More info & calligraphy: Facing the Wall Nine Yearsnine years facing the wall |
七祖 see styles |
qī zǔ qi1 zu3 ch`i tsu chi tsu shichiso |
(1) The seven founders of the 華嚴 Huayan School, whose names are given as 馬鳴 Aśvaghoṣa, 龍樹 Nāgārjuna 杜順 (i.e. 法順) , Zhiyan 智儼, Fazang 法藏, Chengguan 澄觀 and Zongmi 宗密; (2) the seven founders of the 禪Chan School, i.e. 達磨 or 菩提達磨 Bodhidharma, Huike 慧可, Sengcan 僧璨, Daoxin 道信, Hongren 弘忍, Huineng 慧能 and Heze 荷澤 (or Shenhui 神曾); (3) The seven founders of the 淨土 Pure Land School, i.e. Nagarjuna, 世親 Vasubandhu, Tanluan 曇鸞, Daochuo 道綽, Shandao 善導, Yuanxin 源信 and Yuankong 源空 (or Faran 法然), whose teaching is contained in the Qizushengjiao 七祖聖教. |
六祖 see styles |
liù zǔ liu4 zu3 liu tsu rokuso |
The six patriarchs of the Ch'an (Zen) school 禪宗, who passed down robe and begging bowl in succession i. e. Bodhidharma, Huike, Sengcan, Daoxin, Hongren, and Huineng 達摩, 慧可, 僧璨, 道信, 弘忍, and 慧能. |
北宗 see styles |
běi zōng bei3 zong1 pei tsung kitamune きたむね |
(surname) Kitamune The northern school of the Chan (Zen) sect; from Bodhidharma 達磨 to the fifth patriarch 弘忍 Hongren the school was undivided; from 慧能 Huineng began the division of the southern school, 神秀 Shenxiu maintaining the northern; it was the southern school which prevailed. |
南宗 see styles |
nán zōng nan2 zong1 nan tsung nanshū |
The Southern sect, or Bodhidharma School, divided into northern and southern, the northern under 神秀 Shen-hsiu, the southern under 慧能 Hui-nang, circa A.D. 700, hence 南能北秀; the southern came to be considered the orthodox Intuitional school. The phrase 南頓北漸 or 'Southern immediate, northern gradual' refers to the method of enlightenment which separated the two schools. |
壁觀 壁观 see styles |
bì guān bi4 guan1 pi kuan hekkan |
The wall-gazer, applied to Bodhidharma, who is said to have gazed at a wall for nine years. Also a name for the meditation of the Chan school. |
少室 see styles |
shǎo shì shao3 shi4 shao shih Shōshitsu |
Shaoshi, a hill on the 嵩山 Sungshan where Bodhidharma set up his 少林寺 infra. |
慧可 see styles |
huì kě hui4 ke3 hui k`o hui ko eka えか |
(person) Huike (487-593 CE) Huike, the successor of Bodhidharma, v. 達; he previously cut off his arm in appeal to be received as disciple, and finally inherited his mantle and alms-bowl. |
折蘆 折芦 see styles |
zhé lú zhe2 lu2 che lu setsuro せつろ |
(given name) Setsuro The snapped-off reed on which Bodhidharma is said to have crossed the Yangtsze from Nanking. |
祖師 祖师 see styles |
zǔ shī zu3 shi1 tsu shih soshi そし |
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc) founder of a sect; (surname) Soshi A first teacher, or leader, founder of a school or sect; it has particular reference to Bodhidharma. |
禪法 禅法 see styles |
chán fǎ chan2 fa3 ch`an fa chan fa zenpō |
Methods of mysticism as found in (1) the dhyānas recorded in the sūtras, called 如來禪 tathāgata-dhyānas; (2) traditional dhyāna, or the intuitional method brought to China by Bodhidharma, called 祖師禪, which also includes dhyāna ideas represented by some external act having an occult indication. |
禪門 禅门 see styles |
chán mén chan2 men2 ch`an men chan men zenmon |
The meditative method in general. The dhyāna pāramitā, v. 六度. The intuitional school established in China according to tradition by Bodhidharma, personally propagated from mind to mind as an esoteric school. |
胡子 see styles |
hú zǐ hu2 zi3 hu tzu koko ここ |
(female given name) Koko Hun, or Turk, a term applied to the people west and north of China; a nickname for Bodhidharma. |
達摩 达摩 see styles |
dá mó da2 mo2 ta mo daruma だるま |
Dharma, the teaching of Buddha; Bodhidharma (surname) Daruma (Skt. dharma) |
達磨 达磨 see styles |
dá mó da2 mo2 ta mo daruma(p); daruma だるま(P); ダルマ |
(1) (kana only) daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted; (2) (kana only) Bodhidharma; (3) prostitute; (personal name) Daruma dharma; also 達摩; 達麼; 達而麻耶; 曇摩; 馱摩 tr. by 法. dharma is from dhara, holding, bearing, possessing, etc.; and means 'that which is to be held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice'; 'anything right.' M.W. It may be variously intp. as (1) characteristic, attribute, predicate; (2) the bearer, the transcendent substratum of single elements of conscious life; (3) element, i.e. a part of conscious life; (4) nirvāṇa, i.e. the Dharma par excellence, the object of Buddhist teaching; (5) the absolute, the real; (6) the teaching or religion of Buddha; (7) thing, object, appearance. Also, Damo, or Bodhidharma, the twenty-eighth Indian and first Chinese patriarch, who arrived in China A.D. 520, the reputed founder of the Chan or Intuitional School in China. He is described as son of a king in southern India; originally called Bodhitara. He arrived at Guangdong, bringing it is said the sacred begging-bowl, and settled in Luoyang, where he engaged in silent meditation for nine years, whence he received the title of wall-gazing Brahman 壁觀婆羅門, though he was a kṣatriya. His doctrine and practice were those of the 'inner light', independent of the written word, but to 慧可 Huike, his successor, he commended the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra as nearest to his views. There are many names with Dharma as initial: Dharmapāla, Dharmagupta, Dharmayaśas, Dharmaruci, Dharmarakṣa, Dharmatrāta, Dharmavardhana, etc. |
金鷄 金鸡 see styles |
jīn jī jin1 ji1 chin chi kinkei |
The golden cock (or, fowl), with a grain of millet in its beak, a name for Bodhidharma. |
鉢多 钵多 see styles |
bō duō bo1 duo1 po to hatta |
(鉢多羅) pātra, a bowl, vessel, receptacle, an almsbowl; also 鉢呾羅; 鉢和羅 (or 鉢和蘭); 波怛囉 (or 播怛囉); in brief 鉢. The almsbowl of the Buddha is said to have been brought by Bodhidharma to China in A. D. 520. |
面壁 see styles |
miàn bì mian4 bi4 mien pi menpeki めんぺき |
to face the wall; to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism); (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc (n,vs,vi) meditation facing a wall; (surname) Omokabe To sit in meditation with the face to a wall, as did Bodhidharma for nine years, without uttering a word. |
佛心宗 see styles |
fó xīn zōng fo2 xin1 zong1 fo hsin tsung Busshin Shū |
The sect of the Buddha-heart, i.e. the Chan (Zen) or Intuitive sect of Bodhidharma, holding that each individual has direct access to Buddha through meditation. |
天台宗 see styles |
tiān tái zōng tian1 tai2 zong1 t`ien t`ai tsung tien tai tsung tendaishuu / tendaishu てんだいしゅう |
Tiantai school of Buddhism Tendai sect (of Buddhism); (personal name) Tendaishuu The Tiantai, or Tendai, sect founded by 智顗 Zhiyi. It bases its tenets on the Lotus Sutra 法華經 with the 智度論, 涅盤經, and 大品經; it maintains the identity of the Absolute and the world of phenomena, and attempts to unlock the secrets of all phenomena by means of meditation. It flourished during the Tang dynasty. Under the Sung, when the school was decadent, arose 四明 Ciming, under whom there came the division of 山家 Hill or Tiantai School and 山外 the School outside, the latter following 悟恩 Wuen and in time dying out; the former, a more profound school, adhered to Ciming; it was from this school that the Tiantai doctrine spread to Japan. The three principal works of the Tiantai founder are called 天台三部, i. e. 玄義 exposition of the deeper meaning of the Lotus; 文句 exposition of its text; and 止觀 meditation; the last was directive and practical; it was in the line of Bodhidharma, stressing the 'inner light'. |
楞伽經 楞伽经 see styles |
lèng qié jīng leng4 qie2 jing1 leng ch`ieh ching leng chieh ching Ryōga kyō |
The Laṅkāvatāra sūtra, a philosophical discourse attributed to Śākyamuni as delivered on the Laṅka mountain in Ceylon. It may have been composed in the fourth or fifth century A.D.; it "represents a mature phase of speculation and not only criticizes the Sāṅkhya, Pāśupata and other Hindu schools, but is conscious of the growing resemblance of Mahāyānism to Brahmanic philosophy and tries to explain it". Eliot. There have been four translations into Chinese, the first by Dharmarakṣa between 412-433, which no longer exists; the second was by Guṇabhadra in 443, ca11ed 楞伽 阿跋多羅寶經 4 juan; the third by Bodhiruci in 513, called 入楞伽經 10 juan; the fourth by Śikṣānanda in 700-704, called 大乘入楞伽經 7 juan. There are many treatises and commentaries on it, by Faxian and others. See Studies in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra by Suzuki and his translation of it. This was the sūtra allowed by Bodhidharma, and is the recognized text of the Chan (Zen) School. There are numerous treatises on it. |
熊耳山 see styles |
xióng ěr shān xiong2 er3 shan1 hsiung erh shan Yūji san |
Mt Xiong'er national geological park in 棗莊|枣庄[Zao3 zhuang1], south Shandong Bear's ear mount, the place, where Bodhidharma was buried. |
碧眼胡 see styles |
bì yǎn hú bi4 yan3 hu2 pi yen hu Hekigenko |
The blue-eyed barbarian, Bodhidharma. |
祖師禅 see styles |
soshizen そしぜん |
(See 如来禅) Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma |
穿耳僧 see styles |
chuān ěr sēng chuan1 er3 seng1 ch`uan erh seng chuan erh seng senni sō |
Pierced-ear monks, many of the Indian monks wore ear-rings; Bodhidharma was called 穿耳客 the ear-pierced guest. |
達磨宗 达磨宗 see styles |
dá mó zōng da2 mo2 zong1 ta mo tsung darumashuu / darumashu だるましゅう |
(1) (rare) (See 禅宗) Zen (Buddhism); (2) (derogatory term) (archaism) (See 達磨歌) confusing style of middle-age Japanese poetry The Damo, or Dharma sect, i.e. the 禪宗 Meditation, or Intuitional School. |
達磨忌 达磨忌 see styles |
dá mó jì da2 mo2 ji4 ta mo chi darumaki だるまき |
ceremony held in honor (honour) of Bodhidharma (October 5) The anniversary of Bodhidharma's death, fifth of the tenth month. |
二十八祖 see styles |
èr shí bā zǔ er4 shi2 ba1 zu3 erh shih pa tsu nijūhasso |
The twenty-eight Buddhist patriarchs as stated by the Mahāyānists. The Tiantai school reckons twenty-three, or twenty-four, with the addition of Śaṇakavāsa, contemporary with his predecessors, but the Chan school reckons twenty-eight: (1) Mahākāśyapa, 摩訶迦葉 (摩訶迦葉波); (2) Ānanda, 阿難; (3) Śāṇakavāsa, 商那和修; 4) Upagupta, 優婆毱多; (5) Dhṛṭaka, 提多迦; (6) Mikkaka, or Miccaka, or Micchaka, 彌遮迦; (7) Vasumitra, 婆須蜜; (8) Buddhanandi, 佛陀難提; (9) Buddhamitra, 伏駄蜜多; (10) Pārśva, or Pārśvika, 波栗溼縛or 脇尊者; (11) Puṇyayaśas 那尊耶舍; (12) Aśvaghoṣa, 馬鳴大士; (13) Kapimala, 迦毘摩羅; (14) Nāgārjuna, 龍樹; (15) Kāṇadeva, 迦那提婆; (16) Rāhulata, 羅睺羅多; (17) Saṅghanandi, 僧伽難提; (18) Gayāśata, 伽耶舍多; (19) Kumārata, 鳩摩羅多; (20) Jayata, 闍夜多; (21) Vasubandhu, 婆修盤頭; (22) Manorhita, 摩撃羅; (23) Haklena, 鶴輸勒; (24) Ārasiṁha, 師子尊者; (25) Basiasita, 婆舍新多; (26) Puṇyamitra, 不如密多; (27) Prajñātāra, 般若多羅; (28) Bodhidharma, 菩提達磨. |
二祖斷臂 二祖断臂 see styles |
èr zǔ duàn bì er4 zu3 duan4 bi4 erh tsu tuan pi niso danpi |
the second patriarch in China 慧可 of the Chan school, who, to induce bodhidharma to receive him, is said to have cut of his left arm in the snow in order to prove his firmness and determination. |
圓覺大師 圆觉大师 see styles |
yuán jué dà shī yuan2 jue2 da4 shi1 yüan chüeh ta shih Enkaku Daishi |
Bodhidharma |
坐久成勞 坐久成劳 see styles |
zuò jiǔ chéng láo zuo4 jiu3 cheng2 lao2 tso chiu ch`eng lao tso chiu cheng lao zakyu jōrō |
To accomplish one's labour by prolonged sitting, as did Bodhidharma. |
祖師西来 see styles |
soshiseirai / soshiserai そしせいらい |
{Buddh} the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China |
般若多羅 般若多罗 see styles |
bō rě duō luó bo1 re3 duo1 luo2 po je to lo Hannyatara |
Prajñātāra. The 27th patriarch, native of eastern India, who laboured in southern India and consumed himself 'by the fire of transformation,' A.D. 457, teacher of Bodhidharma. |
菩提達摩 菩提达摩 see styles |
pú tí dá mó pu2 ti2 da2 mo2 p`u t`i ta mo pu ti ta mo |
Bodhidharma |
蘆葉達磨 芦叶达磨 see styles |
lú yè dá mó lu2 ye4 da2 mo2 lu yeh ta mo Royō Daruma |
Bodhidharma and his rush-leaf boat in which he is said to have crossed the Yangze. |
達磨不識 达磨不识 see styles |
dá mó bù shì da2 mo2 bu4 shi4 ta mo pu shih Datsuma fushiki |
Bodhidharma's don't know |
達磨大師 达磨大师 see styles |
dá mó dà shī da2 mo2 da4 shi1 ta mo ta shih darumadaishi だるまだいし |
(personal name) Darumadaishi Master Bodhidharma |
達磨廓然 达磨廓然 see styles |
dá mó kuò rán da2 mo2 kuo4 ran2 ta mo k`uo jan ta mo kuo jan Datsuma kakunen |
Bodhidharma's emptiness |
大般涅槃經 大般涅盘经 see styles |
dà bān niè pán jīng da4 ban1 nie4 pan2 jing1 ta pan nieh p`an ching ta pan nieh pan ching Dai nehan kyō |
Nirvana sutra The Mahā-parinirvāṇa sūtras, commonly called the 涅槃經 Nirvāṇa sūtras, said to have been delivered by Śākyamuni just before his death. The two Hīnayāna versions are found in the 長阿含遊行經. The Mahāyāna has two Chinese versions, the northern in 40 juan, and the southern, a revision of the northern version in 36 juan. Faxian's version is styled 大般泥洹經 6 juan. Treatises on the sūtra are 大般涅槃經後分 2 juan tr. by Jñānabhadra; 大般涅槃經疏 33 juan; 大般涅槃經論 1 juan by Vasubandhu, tr. by Bodhidharma. |
少室六門集 少室六门集 see styles |
shǎo shì liù mén jí shao3 shi4 liu4 men2 ji2 shao shih liu men chi Shōshitsu rokumon shū |
Six brief treatises attributed to Bodhidharma, but their authenticity is denied. |
達磨さんが転んだ see styles |
darumasangakoronda だるまさんがころんだ |
(kana only) children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down |
だるまさんが転んだ see styles |
darumasangakoronda だるまさんがころんだ |
(kana only) children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down |
達磨さんがころんだ see styles |
darumasangakoronda だるまさんがころんだ |
(kana only) children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down |
Variations: |
darumasangakoronda だるまさんがころんだ |
(kana only) children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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