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眼

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: eye

Senses:

  • Eyeballs (Skt. cakṣu, cakṣuh); transliterated as 斫蒭 and 斫氣蒭. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • To see; vision; the faculty of sight (cakṣur-indriya). That which, arising in dependence upon the transparently pure existence of the four elements 四大, and serving as the basis for the visual consciousness 眼識, functions as the seeing of visible objects. One of the five (six) sense organs (五根, 六根); one of the five (six) consciousnesses 六識 (Skt. cakṣus, netra, āloka). [Charles Muller]
  • Vision, view (Skt. darśana). [Charles Muller]
  • Vital point, pivotal point. 〔無門關〕 [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. akṣi; akṣa, akṣan, īkṣaṇa, dṛś, nayana, netri, netrī, locana, locanā; Pāli cakkhu) [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 255

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1175c

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 340c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4742

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0879

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)948a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 440-2

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2022-12-01