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如是

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: like this

Senses:

  • Such, in this way; this kind of... [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi]
  • Thus (Skt. evam); thusness (Skt. tathā). [Charles Muller]
  • The appearance of something just as it is, thus, accurate, correct, true; what one believes conforms to truth without any error. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • Such-and-such. [Charles Muller]
  • A reference to the 'ten kinds of thusness' of Tiantai teaching 十如是. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • According to Shōtoku Taishi 聖德太子, a way of explaining the meaning of faith 信. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • One of the six completions 六成就. [Charles Muller]
  • Most the sutras open with the phrase 如是我聞 or 聞如是, "Thus have I heard," i. e. from the Buddha. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • [Chan] When uttered by a master in the presence of his disciple, it indicates that the latter has correctly understood. "You are right." [Charles Muller; source(s): Yokoi, JEBD]
  • Translation of Sanskrit aupayika 奧箄迦. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. evaṃ-rūpa, yathā, tādṛśa; anantarôkta, amuka, iti, ittham, idam, iyatā, *īdṛś, īdṛśa, etad, etā-dṛśa, etāvat, etena prakāreṇa, ettaka, eva, *evaṃ-yuktam, evaṃ-vidha, evaṃ kṛtvā, evaṃ-jātika, evaṃ-jātīya, evam-ādi, evam etat, evam eva, evaṃ-bhāvin, evaṃ-bhūta, eva-rūpa, om, taj-jātīya, tatas, tatratya, tatha, tathatā, tathā-bhūta, tathā-rūpa, tathā-rūpam, tathā-vidha, tathaiva, tad, tad eva, tad-rūpa, tadvat, tādṛś, tāvat, tena, yathā...evam, yathā...tathā, yathā-bhūtam, yathā-svam, yathêdam evaṃ rūpam, yad, yad uta, yādṛśa, yādṛśaka, samaḥ kramaḥ, sāṃprata, seyyathīdam). [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 838

    Bulgyo sajeon 578a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 992b

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 267

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 225b/251

    Teihon zenrin kushō (Shibayama) 12

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 512

    Zen Dust (Sasaki) 83

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1062a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 2366

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0349

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.9-10)774a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1351-3

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

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 384

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2021-02-23