沒滋味

Readings

Pinyin: mò zīwèi

Wade-Giles: mo-tzu-wei

Hangul: 몰자미

Korean MC: mol jami

Korean MR: mol chami

Katakana: モツジミ

Hepburn: motsu jimi

một tư vị

tastelessness

• Tasteless, valueless, useless, e.g., the discussion of the color of milk by blind people. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
• The state in which secular desires are exhausted; also, something hard to bite, like a gong-an 公案. Var. 没滋味. 〔圓悟錄 T 1997.47.777a23〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Inagaki-Zen]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1057

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1228b

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 241

Teihon zenrin kushō (Shibayama), 24

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 19-P50

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1367c

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1740-1

Soothill, 241

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