增長天

Readings

Pinyin: Zēngcháng tiān

Wade-Giles: Tseng-ch'ang t'ien

Hangul: 증장천

Korean MC: Jeungjang cheon

Korean MR: Chŭngjang ch'ŏn

Katakana: ゾウジョウテン

Hepburn: Zōjōten

Virūḍhaka

• One of the four heavenly kings 四天王. He rules over Kumbhāṇḍa 鳩槃荼 and protects the southern continent. (Skt. Kubera, Kuvera*; Pāli Virūḷhaka: Tib `Phags skyes po) 〔人仙經 T 9.1.214c14〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 670

Bulgyo sajeon, 815a

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)3089b, (v.9-10)496c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1094-3

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 743a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 514, 516

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 339a/376

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 850

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0305

Fo Guang Dictionary, 596c

Ding Fubao

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

generated: 2014-03-23