磐石

Readings

Pinyin: pánshí

Wade-Giles: p'an-shih

Hangul: 반석

Korean MC: banseok

Korean MR: pansŏk

Katakana: バンジャク

Katakana: ハンセキ

Hepburn: banjaku

Hepburn: hanseki

large rock

• A big, flat rock. In Buddhism, used as a metaphor for the passage of great units of time, in such concepts as a "large rock eon" 磐石劫 (磨石劫). 〔涅槃經 T 374.12.408c16〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Iwanami, Gakken]

Dictionary References:

Dai kanwa jiten, Vol. 8, p. 8530

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 669

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

generated: 2014-04-02