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Basic Meaning: other

Senses:

  • The other (thing) Skt. para, anya). [] [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • (An) other person (para-puruṣa). [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • In Chan language, the person besides the one is talking to—the third person: he, she. 〔碧巖錄二則、四九則〕 [Charles Muller]
  • In Buddhist logic 因明, someone other than the proponent of the thesis, such as the opponent 敵者 or the witness 證者. [Charles Muller]
  • Used for transliterating the Sanskrit tha sound, one of the fifty siddhaṃ syllables 悉曇五十字門. [Charles Muller]
  • (tasya, apara, itara, jagat, nṛ, parakīya, paratas, paratra, para-sattva, parârtha, visabhāga, sattva; Tib. gzhan pa) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 677

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 780a

    Koga 278

    Record of Linji: Rinzairoku (Yanagida) 58-3

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 895a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1538

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0094

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3182a, (v.1-6)3182c, (v.1-6)3183a, (v.1-6)3183c

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 165



    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2019-06-02