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稠林

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: dense forest

Senses:

  • Forest; a thicket (Skt. vanatha, vana-gahana; Tib. nags sbyor, stug po, thibs po, tsang tsing). Also written 密林 (Skt. gahana, kāntāra; aṭavi, *aṭavi, gahvara). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Stephen Hodge, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • The afflictions, etc. In the Ten Grounds Sutra 十地經, this term is usually seen used in a negative sense, such as 'the dense forest of ignorance'  昏暗稠林, the ' dense forest of mistaken paths'  僻路稠林, etc. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.314b23; 摩訶止觀 T 1911.46.132a27〕 [Charles Muller]
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    Fo Guang Dictionary 5546

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0901

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3669c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1190-2

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa) {Digital Version}

    Soothill 408

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    Entry created: 2003-01-04

    Updated: 2008-04-27