爭

Readings

Pinyin: zhēng

Wade-Giles: cheng

Hangul: 쟁

Korean MC: jaeng

Korean MR: chaeng

Katakana: イカデカ

Hepburn: ikadeka

tranh

why is it so...?

• The above rendering of this term is a Song colloquialism common in Chan literature. (Skt. vivāda; adhikaraṇa, kalaha, kalahaya (den.), √cud, raṇa, vāda, vi-√spṛdh) 〔五家解 HBJ 7.44b3〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
• To struggle, quarrel, wrangle. 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.287c18〕 [resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 20d

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 379

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) , 13-P64

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0799

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