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香象

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: smelly elephant

Senses:

  • An elephant in heat; i.e. a bull elephant that has his mind set on something (most likely sex) and is in an ornery, hard-to-control state (Skt. gandha-hastin). 〔倶舍論, 證道歌〕 [Griffith Foulk, Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Soothill, Hirakawa, Yokoi]
  • Used metaphorically to describe the single-minded, powerful pursuit of Buddhahood by a great bodhisattva. [Griffith Foulk, Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • Gandhahastin, Gandhahastī. One of the sixteen honored ones 十六尊 of the Bhadrakalpa 賢劫. Situated in the outer court 外院 of the Vajragarbha-dhātu maṇḍala 金剛界曼荼羅. Also see 衆手; transcribed with 揵陀訶盡, 乾陀呵晝, 乾陀訶提, etc. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • A bodhisattva in the north who lives with the Buddha on the mountain Incense Gathering 香聚山 (or 香醉山); cf. 香集. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • The name of the 72nd buddha of the thousand buddhas 千佛. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • An elephant-shaped censer in the ritual space of the esoteric consecration ritual 祕密灌頂. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • A beautifully decorated elephant. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • A posthumous title for Fazang 法藏 third patriarch of the Chinese Huayan school 華嚴宗. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • Also transcribed as 乾陀訶提, 揵陀訶盡. 〔倶舍論 T 1559.29.291c7〕 (Skt. prakṛta-hastin, hastin).> [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 301

    Bulgyo sajeon 929a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 317d

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 213

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 416

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 395a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4015

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1281

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1065a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 176-1

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    Entry created: 2002-01-11

    Updated: 2018-10-19