金剛

Readings

Pinyin: jīngāng

Wade-Giles: chin-kang

Hangul: 금강

Korean MC: geumgang

Korean MR: kŭmgang

Katakana: コンゴウ

Hepburn: kongō

kim cương

adamantine

• Adamant, diamond-like; indestructible (substance); extremely hard, tough, impervious, etc. Synonymous with 不壞. An extremely hard material, which is identified with the diamond or the essential substance of gold; often used as an trope for something hard and indestructible. In this sense, it is a oft-used metaphor for the wisdom of enlightenment, which can cut through anything, and can never be destroyed (Skt. vajra; Pāli vajira). The vajra symbolizes an indissoluble union of wisdom and compassion, which is indestructible. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,Soothill, JEBD, Yokoi,Iwanami]
• The vajra, or thunderbolt; it is generally shaped as such, but has other forms. Also, any one of the beings represented with the vajra is called a vajra. [resp. Charles Muller]
• An abbreviation of 金剛杵 a diamond pounder, a ritual object in esoteric Buddhism made mainly of iron and copper. (Tib. rdo rje). The most common form of vajra is a five-pronged scepter, the two ends of which represent wisdom and compassion, the two primary qualities that characterize buddhas.[resp. Charles Muller, John Powers]
• An abbreviation for the adamantine stage 金剛位 — the stage of nonretrogression. [resp. Charles Muller]
• An abbreviation for 金剛力士, one who handles a 金剛杵. [resp. Charles Muller]
• The thunderbolt of Indra, often called the diamond club. Usually considered as one of the saptaratna 七寶. [resp. Charles Muller]
• An abbreviation of "adamantine absorption" 金剛喩定, 金剛三昧. [resp. Charles Muller]
• The Sanskrit vajra is transliterated as 伐闍羅; 跋折羅, 跋闍羅; 縛曰羅, 縛日羅. (Skt. kuliśa, dṛḍha, bola, vajira, vajra-garbha, vajrôpama, hīra) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 318

Bulgyo sajeon, 96a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 364c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 287

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 179b/199

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 391

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 9-P47

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 418b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 3532

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1180

Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), 243

Han'guk bulgyo inmyeong sajeon (Yi), 37

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 475-1

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

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