邪命

Readings

Pinyin: xiémìng

Wade-Giles: hsieh-ming

Hangul: 사명

Korean MC: samyeong

Korean MR: samyŏng

Katakana: ジャミョウ

Hepburn: jamyō

tà mệnh

wrong livelihood

• Non-Buddhist or improper ways of obtaining a living on the part of a monk, e.g., by doing work with his hands, by astrology, his wits, flattery, magic, etc. Begging, or seeking alms, was the orthodox way of obtaining a living. (Skt. mithyâjīva, ājīva, ajīvika, mithyâjīva-kara, mithyâjīvin, viṣamâjīva; Pāli micchā-jīva) Transliterated as 阿耆毘伽. [邪命食] 〔五分律 T 1421.22.9b19, 成唯識論 T 1585.31.3c28〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa, JEBD, Yokoi]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 474

Bulgyo sajeon, 361a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 477a

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 92, 142

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 134b/147

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 273

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 1-P53

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 612d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 3033

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1171

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2179b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 980-2

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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