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妙

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: marvelous

Senses:

  • Wonderful, beautiful, subtle, sublime, exquisite, excellent, fine. Strange, mysterious, miraculous, inconceivable (Skt. mañju, sat, su, nipuna, mādhurya, śobhana). [Charles Muller]
  • Pure, immaculate, beautiful (Skt. pranīta). [Charles Muller]
  • Mysterious, hidden, profound. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. praṇīta, su-, prasādika; agra, accha, apratima, udāra, kalyāṇa, cāru, divya, nipuṇa, paṭu, parama, parama-ramya, puṣkalatā, peśala, praṇītatara, praṇītatas, prabhāva, pravara, praśasta, bandhura, bhaṭṭāraka, bhadra, maṇḍa, madhura, madhura-madhura, mano-jña, mano-rama, mahat, mṛduka, mṛdukā, meru, ramya, rucira, lāḍita, vara, valgu, vicitra, viśeṣa, śiva, śubha, śobha, śrī, śreyas, śreṣṭha, surucira, suviśuddha, snigdha; Tib. gya nom pa) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • su, sat, mañju, sūkṣma. Wonderful, beautiful, mystic, supernatural, profound, subtle, mysterious. su means good, excellent, surpassing, beautiful, fine, easy. sat means existing, real, good. mañju means beautiful, lovely, charming. interpreted in Chinese as 不可思議 beyond thought or discussion; 絕待 special, outstanding; 無比 incomparable; 精微深遠 subtle and profound. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

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    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 769

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 250

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1301c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 2842

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0356

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)249a,2380c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1725-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2007-10-18