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A Definition Etymology In other languages abhidhamma A category of scriptures that attempts to use Buddhist teachings to create a systematic, abstract description of all worldly phenomena abhi is "above" or "about", dhamma is "teaching" Pāli: abhidhamma Sanskrit: abhidharma Bur: အဘိဓမ္မာ abhidhamma Khmer: អភិធម្ម âphĭthômm Tib: ཆོས་མངོན་པ ...
Chang Tsai's dictum, "The negative spirit (kuei) and positive spirit (shen) are the spontaneous activity of the two material forces (yin and yang)," has become the generally accepted definition. [4] The primary meaning of shen is translatable in English as god, gods, God; deity, deities, spirit, spiritual, spiritlike, [1] spirits, Spirit ...
It has subsequently also been used to refer to the jing, qi, and shen and to the Buddhist Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). This latter use is misleading, however, as the Three Jewels in Buddhism is a completely different philosophy. The Buddha is the teacher, the Dharma is the teaching, and the Sangha is the community.
It is a combination of deity (示) and soil (土), meaning "god of the land" [15] Sheshen are associated with soil and grain (shèjì, 社稷), with both sometimes being personified as husband and wife [16] [17] Tudigong means Tu (earth), Di, Gong (grandfather/duke) Sacrifices to Sheshen transitioned to sacrifices to Tudigong [16
[1] [2] Chinese symbols often have auspicious meanings associated to them, such as good fortune, happiness, and also represent what would be considered as human virtues, such as filial piety, loyalty, and wisdom, [1] and can even convey the desires or wishes of the Chinese people to experience the good things in life. [2]
The earliest Buddhist art is from the Mauryan era (322 BCE – 184 BCE), there is little archeological evidence for pre-Mauryan period symbolism. [6] Early Buddhist art (circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) is commonly (but not exclusively) aniconic (i.e. lacking an anthropomorphic image), and instead used various symbols to depict the Buddha.
Seen in Buddhist and Taoist temples. Naluoyan Jingang: 那羅延金剛 He: 和 Collectively, the "2 Immortals He and He", with names meaning "Harmony" and "Union". He: 合 Qin Shubao: 秦叔寶 Tang generals whose image was ordered placed upon gates by the Great Ancestor of the Tang ("Emperor Taizong") Yuchi Gong: 尉遲恭 Sun Bin: 孫臏
The term became another word for the country or the location of Japan itself. The term can be used interchangeably with Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni. A-un (阿吽, lit. ' Om ') – In Shinto-Buddhism, a-un is the transliteration in Japanese of the two syllables "a" and "hūṃ", written in Devanagari as अहूँ (the syllable, Om).