任運

Readings

Pinyin: rènyùn

Wade-Giles: jen-yün

Hangul: 임운

Korean MC: im-un

Korean MR: im'un

Katakana: ニンウン

Hepburn: nin'un

nhậm vận

natural

• Naturally; as it is; naturally occurring (法爾, 自然). Effortlessly. That which is arisen spontaneously, and is not directly initiated 作 by one's present discrimination or volition. This term is found in non-Buddhist works such as the Songshu 宋書 (Wangjingwenzhuan 王景文傳), the Zhengao 眞誥 and so forth, applied with this kind of meaning. It is synonymous with the term 任數 from the Huainanzi 淮南子 (原道訓), and the terms 任天, 任理, 任自然 found in Guoxiang's 郭象 commentary on the Zhuangzi 莊子. (Skt. anābhoga, sva-rasena; anabhisaṃskāra, ayatna, naisargika, sva-rasa, svarasa-vāhin, sva-sva)[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Iwanami, Hirakawa]
• Innately; together with, synonymous with 倶. [resp. Charles Muller]
• To be resigned to fate. [resp. Charles Muller]
• produit naturellement [resp. Paul Swanson]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 843

Bulgyo sajeon, 746a

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 262

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1364-2

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 996d

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 643

Koga, 365

Record of Linji: Rinzairoku (Yanagida), 81-4

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 10-P51

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1072c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 2165

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1005

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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