阿傍

Readings

Pinyin: āpáng

Wade-Giles: ap'ang

Hangul: 아방

Korean MC: abang

Korean MR: abang

Katakana: アボウ

Hepburn: abō

a bàng

ox-head penalty

• Soothill says: "The ox-head torturers in Hades," But Nakamura explains it as a bodily condition of having ox-characteristics suffered by certain hell-denizens. Also 阿傍羅刹 阿防. Translated as 不群. 〔五分律 T 1421.22.184c19〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Nakamura]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 12

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 9b

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)59c,319a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 33-2

Soothill, 285

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