A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms
With Sanskrit And English Equivalents And A Sanskrit-pali Index
by William Edward Soothill | 1937 | 324,264 words
For about a thousand years, Buddhism dominated the thought of China and her thinkers were occupied with Buddhist philosophy. This dictionary serves as a resource to the interpretation of Chinese culture, as well as an important reference for the comparative study of Sanskrit and Pali originals. The author provides a key for the students which to u...
Part 29 - Twenty-nine Strokes
鬱 Dense, oppressive, anxious; translit. u sounds; cf. 郁, 優, 嗢, 殟, 烏.
鬱多摩 uttama, highest, chief, greatest.
鬱多罗 uttara, upper, higher, superior; subsequent; result; excess; the north; also 鬱恒羅, etc.
鬱多罗僧伽 (鬱多罗僧) 耻迟迟补谤ā蝉补?驳补, an upper or outer garment; the seven-patch robe of a monk; also used for the robe flung toga-like over the left shoulder.
鬱多罗究留 Uttarakuru, also 鬱多罗拘樓; 鬱多罗鳩婁; 郁多羅拘樓; 郁恒羅拘瑠; 郁恒羅越; 郁軍越, etc. The northern of the four continents around Meru, square in shape, inhabited by square-faced people; explained by 高上作 superior to or higher than other continents, 勝 superior, 勝生 superior life, because human life there was supposed to last a thousand years and food was produced without human effort. Also, the dwelling of gods and saints in Brahmanic cosmology; one of the Indian 'nine divisions of the world, the country of the northern Kurus. situated in the north of India, and described as the countπy of eternal beatitude.' M. W.
鬱持 uda; also 鬱持迦; 優陀伽; 鳥娜迦 udaka; water.
鬱瑟尼沙 鬱失尼沙. 烏 耻??ī?补.
鬱头蓝 (鬱头蓝佛) Udraka Ramaputra; 鬱头蓝子; 鬱陀羅羅摩子 A Brahman ascetic, to whom miraculous powers are ascribed, for a time mentor of ?ākyamuni after he left home.
鬱金 ku?kuma, saffron; a plant from which scent is made.
鬱鉢罗 v. 優鉢羅 utpala, blue lotus.
鬱陀 cf. 憂 15 and 鬱頭.
鬱陀那 v. 優陀那 耻诲ā苍补, voluntary addresses.
鬱鞞罗 Uruvilvā, the forest near Gaya where ?ākyamuni was an ascetic for six years; also defined as a stream in that forest; cf. 優樓頻螺.