Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

DDB Top Page 
 
 
  XML source

聖人

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: saint

Senses:

  • A holy man; sage. In the pre-Buddhist Chinese classics, this term referred to the enlightened emperor or king as a beneficent ruler, or to great teachers such as Confucius 孔子. In subsequent Chinese translations of Indic Buddhist texts, it was used to render the Sanskrit ārya, denoting an enlightened person—a buddha 佛 or bodhisattva 菩薩 (Skt. ārya-jana). It is also written as 聖者, and simply as 聖. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Yokoi, JEBD, Iwanami]
  • In Abhidharma and Yogâcāra technical usage, a practitioner who is at the level of the path of seeing 見道 or above. In addition to buddhas and bodhisattvas, this can also refer to arhats 阿羅漢, pratyekabuddhas, and other kinds of beings on the path who are beyond the level of applied practices, 'post-learners'  無學. Such enlightened persons are to be distinguished from ordinary unenlightened people, usually written as 凡人 or 異生. [Charles Muller]
  • In Japanese True Pure Land 淨土眞宗, a reference to Shinran 親鸞. [Charles Muller]
  • A title given to a person of high rank. When used as a term of veneration for an historical figure, it is equivalent to 上人. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. ārya-pudgala, agra-puṃgava, arihat, *arhat, ārya-sattva, āryaḥ...pudgalaḥ, ṛsi, dakṣiṇīya, puruṣa-pudgala, bodhi-sattva, muni, yogin, vidus, vidvas, śaikṣa; Pāli ariya) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
  • Le Saint [Paul Swanson]
  • Le Saint (ārya) est l'une des appellations du Buddha. Sa sagesse lui permit de discriminer le sens de la Loi. [Paul Swanson]
  • CJKV-E
  • Search SAT
  • Search INBUDS Database

    • Feedback

    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 560

    Bulgyo sajeon 469a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 575d, 646c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 442, 483

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 297a/329

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 693

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 14-P25

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 728d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5577

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0955

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2748b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 787-3

    Copyright provisions

    The rights to textual segments (nodes) of the DDB are owned by the author indicated in the brackets next to each segment. For rights regarding the compilation as a whole, please contact Charles Muller. Please do not reproduce without permission. And please do not copy into Wikipedia without proper citation!

    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2017-09-28