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無上

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: most

Senses:

  • Best, greatest; unsurpassed, unexcelled, supreme, peerless. The Buddha is unsurpassed in seven ways 七無上 (Skt. anuttara; Tib. bla na med pa). Transliterated as 阿耨多羅 [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge]
  • Liberation 解脫. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • The Buddhaʼs wisdom. The six kinds of unsurpassed cognition 六無上. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. ānuttarya, niruttara; agra, agrya, anuttama, anuttaratas, anuttaratā, anuttaratva, anuttarya, abhyudgata, uttama, uttara, niruttaratā, para, paramatā, paramatva, pradhāna, vara, viśiṣṭa, śreṣṭha, samudgata, sāra; Pāli anuttara; Tib. bla na med pa) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1207b

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 784

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1332b

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0752

    Han'guk bulgyo inmyeong sajeon (Yi) 91

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1705-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2010-04-03