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沒滋味

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: tastelessness

Senses:

  • Tasteless, valueless, useless, e.g., the discussion of the color of milk by blind people. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • The state in which secular desires are exhausted; also, something hard to bite, like a gong-an 公案. Var. 没滋味. 〔圓悟錄 T 1997.47.777a23〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Inagaki-Zen]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1057

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1228b

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 241

    Teihon zenrin kushō (Shibayama) 24

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 19-P50

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1367c

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1740-1

    Soothill 241

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    Entry created: 2002-06-11

    Updated: 2008-02-22