安居竟

Readings

Pinyin: ānjū jìng

Wade-Giles: an-chü ching

Hangul: 안거경

Korean MC: angeo gyeong

Korean MR: angŏ kyŏng

Katakana: アンゴキョウ

Hepburn: angyo kyō

end of rains retreat

• The final day of the rains retreat. Vinaya text vary on the dates for the period of the rains retreat, with the pre-Xuanzang translations giving it on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the post-Xuanzang translation giving the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar. There are also other interpretations. See "retreat" 安居. (Skt. varṣôṣita, varṣā-vusta, *varṣā-vasita) 〔善見律毘婆沙 T 1462.24.709c12〕[resp. Tom Newhall; source(s): Hirakawa, DFB]

Dictionary References:

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0374

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 45-3

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