親近善友

Readings

Pinyin: qīnjìn shànyǒu

Wade-Giles: ch'in-chin shan-yu

Hangul: 친근선우

Korean MC: chingeun seon-u

Korean MR: ch'ingŭn sŏn'u

Katakana: シンゴンゼンウ

Hepburn: shingon zen'u

becoming intimate with good Buddhist friends

• Finding reliable teachers. One of the four ways of drawing close to the Dharma 四親近. (Skt. satpuruṣa-saṃsevā; Skt. kalyāṇa-mitra-saṃsevā, kalyāṇa-mitra-sevā; Tib. dge ba'i bshes gnyen la brten pa) 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.534c26〕[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, Nakamura, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 791c

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1061

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

generated: 2013-10-19