行

Readings

Pinyin: xíng

Wade-Giles: hsing

Hangul: 행

Korean MC: haeng

Korean MR: haeng

Katakana: ギョウ

Katakana: コウ

Katakana: アン

Hepburn: gyō

Hepburn: kō

Hepburn: an

to practice

• To undertake; conduct, do, carry out; to practice; accomplishing, practicing; a path. Religious acts, deeds, or exercises aimed at taking one closer to the final goal of enlightenment. (Skt. carya; pratipad, prayoga; Pāli cariyā; Tib. spyod pa, lam, sgrub pa) [resp. Charles Muller, Will Giddings; source(s): Nakamura, Stephen Hodge, Yokoi, Iwanami]
• As carita it refers to a being's temperament, conduct, behavior, actions, etc. the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra lists five kinds of temperament 五行. [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. saṃskāra) Conditioned things; dharmas produced through causation, i.e., so-called conditioned phenomena 有爲法; formative forces. Those things which arise out of causes and conditions and constantly change. Also volition; impulse, intention, orientation—the mental function of "going" toward external objects; one of the five aggregates 五蘊. The second of the twelve links of dependent arising 十二因緣. It refers to all deeds, both good and evil, produced in the past. (Pāli saṅkhāra; Tib. 'dus byas) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
• In connection with the above, in Yogâcāra, conditioned phenomena are expressed as the good and evil manifestations 現行 and seeds 種子 produced by volition through ignorance. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD]
• To go, move, proceed. To walk, to continue. (Skt. ā-car*; √gam*; Tib. 'gro ba; kun tu spyod pa) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge, JEBD]
• A feature; a defining activity, like 行相 (Skt. ākāra; Tib. rnam pa). [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
• To engage in (Skt. ava-car*; Tib. 'jug par byed pa). [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
• A row, a line, a series. [resp. Charles Muller]
• To travel; a trip. [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. gati, gamana; samudācāra; paṅkti; adhigama, adhyāpatti, anugata, anucarita, anuprayāta, anubhava, anuyāta, anuyoga, anuvartanatā, anusaraṇa*, anusārin, abhinirhāra, abhinirhṛta, abhiyukta, abhisaṃskāra, abhisamaya, abhyāsa, avacara, avacāraka, ākāraṇa, āgamana, ācarita, ācāra, ānuśaṃsa, āpādana, ārambha, āhvayana, iti, īryā-patha, īhana, upaga, upacaya, upacāra, upasthāpayati, upāyatva, karman, kārin, kārya, kurvat, kṛtya, kriyā, gata, gatavat, gama, gāmin, go-cara, caṅkrama, caṅkramaṇa, cara, caraṇa, caratas, cari, caritavat, caritavya, caritāvin, caritu-kāma, carin, cariyā, cariṣṇu, cariṣṇutā, carī, cāra, cāraṇa, cārayati, cārika, cārikā, cāritra, cārin, cīrṇa, ceṣṭa, ceṣṭā, ceṣṭita, jaṅgama, dharma-pratipatti, niṣevaṇa, parâyaṇa, paricaryā, pariprāpayati, purima-cari, prakāra, prakramaṇa, pracarita, pracāra, pracārin, praticārin, pratipattavya, pratipanna, prayāṇa, prayāta, prayukta, pravartamāna; pratipatti, pravṛtta, pravṛtti, prasara, prasaraṇa, praskandha, prasthāna, prasthita, bhāva, bhāvanā, bhāvita, bhramat, maryādā, yukta, yoga, lambuka, vartaka, vāha, vikrama, vicarita, vicāraṇa, vicāraṇā, viprakṛṣṭa, viṣaya, visṛta, viharaṇa, vihāra, vihārin, vṛtta, vṛtti, vṛtty-artha, vyavacāra, vyavacāraṇatā, vyāpṛta, vrata, saṃskṛta, saṃcarita, saṃcāra, saparivartamāna, samaṅgin, samavasṛta, samācaraṇa, samācāra, samārūḍha, samudācāratā, samudācārin, saṃpad, saṃprayukta, saṃpravṛtti, saṃprasthita, saṃbhāra, saṃmukhībhāva, suparibhāvita, sevanatā, sthita) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 187

Bulgyo sajeon, 926a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 214b

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 169

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 63

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 93a/103

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 186

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 6-P119

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 241b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 2551

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1043

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)560c,572a,1714b, (v.1-6)561a,573b,573c,576a,621a,854c,2438a, (v.9-10)150c,343b,387c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 267-1

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

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 549

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