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There are 7 total results for your Benzaiten search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

弁財天

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 benzaiten
    べんざいてん

More info & calligraphy:

Benzaiten
(Buddhist term) Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water; (place-name) Benzaiten

妙音天

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miào yīn tiān
    miao4 yin1 tian1
miao yin t`ien
    miao yin tien
 Myōon Ten
(妙音樂天) Sarasvatī, the wife or female energy of Brahmā. Also called 辨才天 (辨才天女) Jap. Benzaiten, or Benten; goddess of eloquence, learning, and music, bestower of the Sanskrit language and letters, and the bestower of 財 riches; also the river goddess. Sometimes considered as masculine. Honoured among the seven gods of luck, and often represented as mounted on a dragon or a serpent.

弁才天

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 benzaiten
    べんざいてん
(Buddhist term) Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water; (place-name) Benzaiten

辨財天

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 benzaiten
    べんざいてん
(out-dated kanji) (Buddhist term) Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water

辯才天


辩才天

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biàn cái tiān
    bian4 cai2 tian1
pien ts`ai t`ien
    pien tsai tien
 Benzai ten
    べんざいてん
Saraswati (the Hindu goddess of wisdom and arts and consort of Lord Brahma)
(out-dated kanji) (Buddhist term) Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water
Sarasvatī, goddess of speech and learning, v. 大辯才天.

弁財天山

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 benzaitenyama
    べんざいてんやま
(personal name) Benzaiten'yama

Variations:
弁財天
弁才天
辨財天(oK)
辯才天(oK)

see styles
 benzaiten; bezaiten(弁財天, 弁才天)
    べんざいてん; べざいてん(弁財天, 弁才天)
{Buddh} Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 7 results for "Benzaiten" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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