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增損

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: increase and decrease

Senses:

  • Gain and loss; to add and subtract, like 增減 (Skt. vaiṣamya). 〔百丈淸規 T 2025.48.1159a8〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, Nakamura, LinYutang, M-W]
  • To reify or deny. [Charles Muller]
  • To impute; imputation. [Charles Muller]
  • Excesses and deficiencies among the elements of the physical body that lead to sickness, which can be cured by the yellow myrobalan medicine. 〔觀藥王藥上二菩薩經 T 1161.20.665c8〕 Cf. 四大增損. [Charles Jones; source(s): T1161]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 882d

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0306

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    Entry created: 2013-03-02

    Updated: 2018-02-14