變

Readings

Pinyin: biàn

Wade-Giles: pien

Hangul: 변

Korean MC: byeon

Korean MR: pyŏn

Katakana: ヘン

Hepburn: hen

biến

to change

• To alter, transmute, transform, evolve; to become something different (Skt. pariṇāma). One of the most fundamental concepts for understanding the Buddhist view of the nature of existence, especially as articulated in the Yogâcāra system, wherein all phenomena are regarded as the transformations of consciousness. In this system, there are two distinct connotations of transformer 能變 and that which is transformed 所變. In this sense often expressed with the compound word 轉變, or with 轉 alone. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD]
• (Skt. vikāra, nirmāṇa, prātihārya; nirmita, parāvṛtta, parāvṛtti, pariṇāmana, pariṇāmita, pariṇāmin, pratihārya, māpayati, vikṛti, vikopana, vikriyā, vigata, vipariṇata, vipariṇāma, virikta, visadṛśôtpatti, vyakta) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 941

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 714

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 103a/113

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 14-P233

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1214d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6912

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1101

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4524a

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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