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There are 10 total results for your Dogen search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

同源

see styles
tóng yuán
    tong2 yuan2
t`ung yüan
    tung yüan
 dōgen
    どうげん
homology (biology); a common origin
(noun - becomes adjective with の) the same origin
[to have] the same origin

道玄

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 dougen / dogen
    どうげん
(surname, given name) Dōgen

道眼

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dào yǎn
    dao4 yan3
tao yen
 dōgen
The eye attained through the cultivation of Buddha-truth; the eye which sees that truth.

銅玄

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 dougen / dogen
    どうげん
(surname) Dougen

修証義

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 shushougi / shushogi
    しゅしょうぎ
(work) Shushogi (compilation of Great Master Dogen's ideas, put together by the Soto Zen school); (wk) Shushogi (compilation of Great Master Dogen's ideas, put together by the Soto Zen school)

道元派

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dào yuán pài
    dao4 yuan2 pai4
tao yüan p`ai
    tao yüan pai
 Dōgen pa
Dōgen ha

道玄池

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 dougenike / dogenike
    どうげんいけ
(place-name) Dōgen'ike

永平道元

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yǒng píng dào yuán
    yong3 ping2 dao4 yuan2
yung p`ing tao yüan
    yung ping tao yüan
 Eihei Dōgen
Eihei Dōgen

道元希玄

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dào yuán xī xuán
    dao4 yuan2 xi1 xuan2
tao yüan hsi hsüan
 Dōgen Kigen
Dōgen Kigen

Variations:
同源
同原

see styles
 dougen / dogen
    どうげん
(noun - becomes adjective with の) same origin
This page contains 10 results for "Dogen" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

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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