變相 biànxiàng pien-hsiang 변상 byeonsang pyŏnsang ヘンソウ hensō biến tương to mark of transformation (Skt. vipariṇata, vikṛta) Changing characteristics. 十問和諍論 HBJ 1.839 A term for paintings and other images that depict the characteristics of the pure lands, hells, deva-realms, maṇḍalas, and so forth. The Fo Guang Dictionary has a long explanation of this. Also written 變相圖. Bukkyō jiten (Ui)942 Iwanami bukkyō jiten716 A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki)103 Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga)5-P31 Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura)1215d Fo Guang Dictionary6917 Ding Fubao{Digital Version} Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa)1102 Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki)(v.1-6)4534c, (v.9-10)857c,936b Bukkyō daijiten (Oda)1572-1