無間

Readings

Pinyin: wújiān

Wade-Giles: wu-chien

Hangul: 무간

Korean MC: mugan

Korean MR: mugan

Katakana: ムゲン

Hepburn: mugen

vô gián

immediately

• Immediate, continuous, instantaneously; momentary, uninterrupted, continuous; without break or respite; at once (Skt. anantaram; sātatya, anantara, anantarya, ānantarya; Tib. rgyun du, mjug thogs su, bar chad med pa); unending (Tib. rtag pa) [resp. cmuller; source(s): S.Hodge, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, Yokoi]
• Without obstacles; unimpeded. (Skt. nirantara; Tib. bar chad med pa, rgyun mi 'chad pa) [resp. cmuller; source(s): S. Hodge]
• An abbreviation for the hell of uninterrupted suffering 無間地獄 (Skt. avīci). The character here is originally written with 閒 which has the meaning of "respite" or "break."[resp. cmuller]
• Abbreviation of the instantaneous path 無間道. [resp. cmuller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1034

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1203c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 780, 781

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 467

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 19-P228

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1321d

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0779

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)56b,1124c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1695-3

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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