Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

DDB Top Page 
 
 
  XML source

力

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: strength

Senses:

  • (Skt. bala; Tib. stobs) Force, energy; ability (Skt. sthāman). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, YBh-Ind]
  • Power; influence (Skt. vaśa). [Charles Muller]
  • Movement, function. [Charles Muller]
  • To endeavor, make effort. Forcibly, to strain, exert oneself. [Charles Muller]
  • A warrior, a knight. [Charles Muller]
  • One of the 18 distinctive marks of the Buddha. [Charles Muller]
  • Spiritual power, occult power. [Charles Muller]
  • One of the ten expressions of thusness taught in the Lotus Sutra. See 十如是. [Charles Muller]
  • There are several sets of powers listed in Buddhist texts:
    1. two powers 二力—power of choice and of practice;
    2. three powers 三力—the power of Buddha; of meditation (samādhi) and of practice.
    3. five powers 五力 pañcabala—the five powers of faith, zeal, memory (or remembering), meditation, and wisdom.
    4. six powers 六力—a childʼs power is in crying; a womanʼs in resentment; a kingʼs in domineering; an arhatʼs in zeal (or progress); a Buddhaʼs in mercy; and a bhikṣuʼs in endurance (of despite).
    5. ten powers 十力 The ten powers of buddhas and bodhisattvas.
    (Skt. śakti, prabhāva, vega, samartha; adhiṣṭhāna, anubhāva, alam, āshipatya, āvedha, utsāha, parākrama, prabalatva, prabhava, prabhāvita, prasabham, balatva, bala-pāramitā, balâdhāna, balika, balin, *māhâtmya, yatna, lakṣmī, vikrāmin, vīrya, sattva, samarthya) [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]
  • CJKV-E
  • Search SAT
  • Search INBUDS Database

    • Feedback

    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1098

    Bulgyo sajeon 194b-36

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 161

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1418b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 321

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0198

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4960b, (v.9-10)1149c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1783-3

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

    Copyright provisions

    The rights to textual segments (nodes) of the DDB are owned by the author indicated in the brackets next to each segment. For rights regarding the compilation as a whole, please contact Charles Muller. Please do not reproduce without permission. And please do not copy into Wikipedia without proper citation!

    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2007-09-22