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上 [above]
上三 [the above three]
上上 [best of the best]
上上人 [most excellent person]
上上品 [best of the best]
上上果 [most ultimate fruit]
上上根 [most excellent faculties]
上下 [above and below]
上下八諦 [higher and lower eight truths]
上下品 [least of the great]
上中 [superior and middle-level]
上中下 [greatest, middling, and least]
上中下品 [superior, middle, and lower grade]
上中下法 [superior, middling, and inferior teachings]
上中品 [middling of the great]
上乘 [superior vehicle]
上乘密宗 [higher vehicle esoteric school]
上乘瑜伽 [mahāyāna-yoga]
上乘禪 [superior-vehicle Chan]
上事修習 [successive undertaking cultivation]
上二界 [upper two realms]
上二衆 [upper two groups of practitioners]
上人 [excellent personage]
上位 [top seat]
上住 [higher abodes]
上佛道 [the supreme Buddha-Path]
上來 [from above]
上供 [to offer up]
上元 [fifteenth day of the first lunar month]
上元燒燈 [lantern festival at the first full moon]
上分 [upper part (of the body)]
上分結 [higher level bonds]
上分諸結 [higher-level bonds]
上勝 [superior]
上勝解 [great inclination]
上卷 [first roll]
上去 [to go up]
上古 [great antiquity]
上句 [the supreme sentence]
上味 [excellent flavor]
上品 [higher level]
上品上生 [highest of the highest stage]
上品下生 [lowest of the highest three levels]
上品中生 [middle of the highest three levels]
上品之華 [the lotus will open its highest grade of blossom]
上品修 [engaging cultivation]
上品懺悔 [superior repentance]
上品成熟 [high-level [spiritual] maturation]
上品戒 [high disposition precepts]
上品暴惡 [worst kind of violence]
上品煩惱 [most virulent of the afflictions]
上品蓮臺 [lotus dais of the highest stage]
上品衆生 [superior class of sentient beings ]
上品道 [greatest path]
上善 [the highest goodness]
上地 [higher stages of practice]
上坐 [elder]
上坐部 [Sthavira]
上堂 [to ascend to the hall]
上堂牌 [tablet informing monks to go to the lecture hall]
上壇 [upper altar]
上壇幀畵 [scroll painting that is hung behind the main altar]
上士 [superior disciple]
上天 [to ascend to heaven]
上妙 [most excellent]
上妙正行供養 [most sublime appropriate offerings]
上妙法 [most sublime dharma]
上妙淸淨 [spotless]
上子 [eldest child]
上宮 [Jōgū]
上宮太子 [Jōgū Taishi]
上宮太子拾遺記 [A Record of Gleanings of Jōgū Shōtoku]
上宮法王 [Jōgū Hōō]
上宮王 [Jōgū Ō]
上宮皇太子 [Jōgū Kō Taishi]
上宮皇子 [Jōgū Kōshi]
上宮聖德太子傳補缺記 [A Supplemental Record to the Biography of Jōgū Prince Shōtoku]
上宮聖德法王帝說 [Jōgū Shōtoku Hōō Teisetsu]
上審菩薩 [Shangshen Pusa]
上尊 [supreme]
上尊佛道 [the supreme Buddha-Path]
上尊道 [the supreme (Buddha-)Path]
上座 [head seat]
上座部 [Sthavira]
上心 [mental state of the formless meditation heaven]
上心惑 [afflictions affecting those of advanced states of mind]
上心煩惱 [afflictions of those of advanced states of mind]
上忍 [exceedingly patient]
上忍位 [stage of superior tolerance]
上意 [superior intention (?)]
上慢 [pride in superior [spiritual] attainment]
上慧 [supreme wisdom]
上戒 [firm virtue]
上所說 [above-explained]
上手 [abbot]
上捨 [superior indifference]
上數 [rising numbers]
上方 [abbot]
上早殿 [morning devotions]
上昇 [to ascend [to the heavenly realm]]
上昇天宮 [to ascend to the heavenly palace]
上時迦葉 [Uruvilvā-Kāśyapa]
上晩殿 [afternoon devotions]
上智 [intelligent]
上最 [the best]
上根 [superior faculties]
上根一法中根七法下根十法 [one practice for the talented, seven for the middling, ten for the inferior]
上業 [an excellent practice]
上求下化 [seek what is above and save those that are below]
上求佛道下化衆生 [seeking the path of the Buddha above, and saving sentient beings below]
上求本來 [seek the above original source]
上求菩提 [to seek bodhi above]
上求菩提下化衆生 [seek enlightenment above, transform sentient beings below]
上法 [the supreme Dharma]
上流 [traverse upwards against the flow]
上流般 [traverse upwards against the flow]
上煩 [opposition]
上煩惱 [severe affliction]
上珍 [excellent and rare]
上生 [be reborn into a superior state of existence]
上生經 [Shangsheng jing]
上界 [upper realms]
上界天 [celestials of the upper realms]
上祭 [to place offerings on the altar]
上種 [superior type]
上綱 [highest cord]
上緣 [an object above]
上者 [best]
上聰敏 [most clever]
上肩 [upper shoulder]
上肩順轉 [to circumambulate]
上臈 [senior monk]
上至 [up too...]
上茅城 [Kuśāgrapura]
上茅宮城 [Kuśāgrapura]
上著衣 [outer robe]
上行 [flow upward]
上行意 [Viśiṣṭacāritra]
上行菩薩 [Viśiṣṭacāritra Bodhisattva]
上衍 [superior vehicle]
上衣 [upper robe]
上語 [the beginning part of words]
上說 [above-explained]
上趣 [higher destinies]
上足 [superior disciple]
上跡 [supreme achievements (or deeds, lit. footprints)]
上身 [upper body]
上身分 [upper half of the body]
上輩 [higher level]
上輩觀 [superior contemplation]
上轉 [upward turn]
上述 [above-explained]
上進 [advance]
上道 [the supreme path]
上達 [excellent]
上間 [superior rooms]
上院寺 [Sangwon sa]
上靡 [standing straight up]
上頭 [best]
上饌 [superior foods]
上首 [most excellent]
上首煩惱 [primary afflictions]
上香 [to stand or burn incense]
Updated: 2012-05-06