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慧

Readings

Pinyin: huì

Wade-Giles: hui

Hangul: 혜

Korean MC: hye

Korean MR: hye

Katakana: エ

Hepburn: e

huệ

wisdom

Insight, discernment, understanding; cognitive acuity; the power to discern things and their underlying principles and to decide the doubtful. Esp. superior cognitive function as distinguished from mundane cognition. The mental function of discriminating the relative and the absolute, cutting off doubt. (Skt. prajña; Tib. shes rab) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Stephen Hodge, JEBD, Yokoi]
Intelligence; the function of the mind which makes decisions and eliminates doubts; it also enables the mind to gain an understanding of phenomena. One of the omnipresent factors 大地法 in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya 倶舍論. One of the five "specialized function" 別境 mental factors in Yogâcāra (Skt. mati; Tib. blo gros). Clever, intellectual, quick-witted. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
Knowledge (Skt. jñāna; Tib. shes pa). [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
Also commonly written with the variant form 惠, in which case it is often part of the name of a monk, e.g. 慧可 Huike; 慧思 Huisi. [resp. Charles Muller]
(Skt. adhiprajñā, dhī; agra-prajñā, ājñā, jina-jñāna, jñāna-skandha, darśana, prajñāvat, prajñêndriya, buddhi, medhā, vidarśanā, vidyā, vipaśyanā, saṃprajanya, saṃprajñāna, saṃpradhī, sūri; Pāli paññā, adhipaññā; Tib. shes rab) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 78

Bulgyo sajeon, 940a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 80d

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 66

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 49a/55

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 107

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 6-P143

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 105a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6019

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0499

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)250a,1290a,3323c,4258a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 567-1-21*1860-2

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

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 230

generated: 2013-09-12