見聞

Readings

Pinyin: jiànwén

Wade-Giles: chien-wen

Hangul: 견문

Korean MC: gyeonmun

Korean MR: kyŏnmun

Katakana: ケンモン

Hepburn: kenbun

kiến văn

seeing or hearing

• Seeing and hearing, i. e. beholding Buddha with the eyes and hearing his truth with the ears. (Skt. dṛṣṭa-śruta, darśana-śrava, dṛṣṭy-ākṛṣṭi) 〔起信論 T 1666.32.578c28〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 298d

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 323d

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1059

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 427-1

Soothill, 244

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