童子

Readings

Pinyin: tóngzǐ

Wade-Giles: t'ung-tzu

Hangul: 동자

Korean MC: dongja

Korean MR: tongja

Katakana: ドウジ

Katakana: ワラワ

Hepburn: dōji

Hepburn: warawa

đồng tử

prince

• Translation of 拘摩羅, 鳩摩羅, etc. Skt. kumāra. A young boy, youth, son, or child; a prince; a neophyte. One who wishes to enter into the priesthood, and who serves as a servant of monks. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind, JEBD, Soothill]
• Also applied to a bodhisattva, because he is, as it were, a son of the Tathāgata. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD]
• (Skt. bāla, dāraka; kumāratva, kumāra-bhūta, *kumāra-lāta, garbha-rūpa, dahara, māṇavaka, māṇavikā, māra-dārikā, yauvana, kumāraka; Tib. gzhon nu) 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.289a20 〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 778

Bulgyo sajeon, 185a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) , 924c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten , 606

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) , 50

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) , 47a/52

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) , 102

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) , 5-P39, 5-P167

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) , 1012d, 1468d

Fo Guang Dictionary , 5168

Ding Fubao , {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) , 0913

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) , (v.1-6)3871a,3056b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) , 1282-3

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa) , {Digital Version}

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