能持

Readings

Pinyin: néng chí

Wade-Giles: neng-ch'ih

Hangul: 능지

Korean MC: neung ji

Korean MR: nŭng chi

Katakana: ノウジ

Hepburn: nō ji

năng trì

to maintain

• Observe, uphold; Seizing, holding; seizer, holder. (Skt. grahaṇa, grāhaka) [resp. cmuller; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa]
• As a Chinese translation of dhāraṇī 陀羅尼 and derivatives, meaning holding, bearing, carrying, wearing, possessing, having, keeping (also in memory), sustaining, preserving, observing. In the context of discussions of "retaining" a scripture, it refers to the ability not only to memorize the scripture, but to be able to hold it in one's mind as an object of contemplation. (Skt. dhārayati, dhāraṇa, dhara, dhātṛ, dhāraṇatā, dhārikā; Tib. rton par byed pa, gzung bar bya ba). [resp. cmuller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
• To observe the precepts (Skt. pālana). 〔梵網經菩薩戒本私記 HBJ 1.594a〕 [resp. cmuller]
• A basis for maintaining; and agent of observance (Skt. ādhāra). [resp. cmuller]
• Stay, support, strengthening; base, basis, ground, occasion (Skt. upastambha). [resp. cmuller; source(s): Hirakawa]
• (Skt. ādharaṇa, ādhārabhūta, ādhāra-bhūtatva, ārādhayati, kārin, pratiṣṭhā, saṃdhāraṇa, sahiṣṇu) [resp. cmuller"resp. cmuller; ref. YBh-In; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 851

Bulgyo sajeon, 135b-3

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1006d

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1085d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 4296

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0970

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)3532b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1383-3

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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