天眞

Readings

Pinyin: tiānzhēn

Wade-Giles: t'ien-shen

Hangul: 천진

Korean MC: cheonjin

Korean MR: ch'ŏnjin

Katakana: テンシン

Hepburn: tenshin

thiên chân

as it originally is

• Without artificiality. Thusness; permanent reality underlying all phenomena, pure and unchanging e.g., the sea in contrast with the waves; nature, the natural, 天然之眞理, 非人之造作者 natural reality, not of human creation. 〔寶藏論 T 1857.45.145b18〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill]

Dictionary References:

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 894a

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 400

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 982b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1356

Ding Fubao

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1250-1

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 146

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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