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火神

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: fire deities

Senses:

  • Agni, the fire-god 火天, transliterated as 阿耆尼. (Skt. agni-daivata, *agni-deva) [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • The gods of fire, stated as numbering forty-four in the Vedic pantheon, with Mahābrahmā as the first; of these the Vairocana Sūtra takes twelve, i. e. 大因陀羅; 行滿; 摩嚕多; 盧醯多; 波喋華, 忿怒; 闍吒羅; 吃灑耶; 意生; 羯攞微; (11th unknown); 謨賀那. Cf. 火尊; 火天. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]
  • Fire deity. One of the four element deities found in the perfected body assembly 成身會 of the vajradhātu-maṇḍala 金剛界曼荼羅. Cf. 四大神 [Cate Pearce; source(s): MDJ]
  • Cf. Karashima (Lokakṣema Glossary): view / hide
      
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 115

    Bulgyo sajeon 966a3

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 145b

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0749

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)762b,1880a,2328b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 12-1-7*330-3

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 161

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 234

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    Entry created: 2002-03-05

    Updated: 2015-02-18