明徹

Readings

Pinyin: míngchè

Wade-Giles: ming-ch'e

Hangul: 명철

Korean MC: myeongcheol

Korean MR: myŏngch'ŏl

Katakana: ミョウテツ

Hepburn: myōtetsu

to have clear insight

• 〔正法華經 T 263.9.98a2〕 ; (Skt. janaka, pariśuddha, paryavadāpita)(cf. Krh.133). 〔唐代〕 [resp. Seishi Karashima; ref. Hirakawa]
• Mingche (?-523). Towards the end of the Tianjian 天監 reign era (502–519), Liang Wudi 梁武帝 summoned him to a post as chaozhuan 抄撰 (apparently some kind of scribe) in the sengxing 僧省 ("Bureau of Monks"?). His biography is found at Xu gaoseng zhuan 續高僧傳T 2060.50.473a25-474a2. See Chen Jinhua 陳金華, Buddhist Establishments within Liang Wudi's Imperial Park, in The Development and Practice of Humanitarian Buddhism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Hsu Mu-tsu, Chen Jinhua and Lori Meeks (Hualien, Taiwan : Tzu Chi University, 2007), 22. [resp. Michael Radich]

Dictionary References:

Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata), 42,332

Hanyu da cidian, vol. 5, p. 616b

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0597

Dai kanwa jiten (Morohashi), vol. 5, p. 777

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