古寺巡礼 – Vocabulary list

哲てつ学がく的てき

philosophical

1

人にん間げん苦く

human suffering

1

饑き饉きん

famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

1

疫えき病びょう

epidemic; plague; pestilence

1

頻ひん発ぱつ

frequent occurrence

1

惨さん苦く

terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering

2

官かん権けん

governmental authority

7

小こ僧ぞう

youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy

4

徒と弟てい

apprentice

2

妄みだりに

without authority; without reason; unnecessarily; recklessly; indiscriminately

1

禍か

disaster; calamity; misfortune

1

朋ほう党とう

faction; clique

1

臂ひじ

elbow

1

剥はがす

to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay

1

諸しょ家か

various families; various schools of thought

1

歴れき訪ほう

round of calls; tour of visitation

1

仮か説せつ

hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory

1

強しいて

by force

1

乞こう

to beg; to ask; to request; to pray; to wish

5

聖ひじり

highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master

2

道どう

road; path; way; set of practices; moral education; Buddhist teachings; Taoism

2

詐さ称しょう

misrepresentation; false statement

2

百ひゃく姓せい

the common people

1

惑わく

klesha

2

道どう俗ぞく

monks and laity

2

擾じょう乱らん

disturbance

1

四し民みん

the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)

2

業ごう

karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper

2

棄すてる

to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

1

教きょう

-ism (religion)

2

退しりぞく

to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire

1

犯おかす

to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate

2

養よう老ろう

making provision for the elderly; making provision for one's old age; spending one's old age in comfort; Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)

4

元がん年ねん

first year (of an imperial era); year something (important) first happened or began

2

禁きん戒かい

prohibition (e.g. in Buddhism); taboo (esp. religious or cultural); commandment

1

近ちかごろ

lately; recently; nowadays; terribly; awfully; extremely

2

右う京きょう

Ukyō

2

因いん果が

cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky

2

妻さい子し

wife and children; (arch.) wife

2

称しょうする

to call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess

1

経きょう

sutra; Buddhist scriptures

8

鉢はち

bowl; pot; (plant) pot; flowerpot; crown (of the head); skull

3

捧ささげる

to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

1

道どう途と

road

1

食しょく

food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion

1

邪じゃ説せつ

heretical doctrine

1

偽ぎ称しょう

assuming a false name

1

村そん邑ゆう

village

1

群ぐん衆しゅう

group (of people); crowd; horde; throng; mob; multitude

1

修しゅう道どう

learning; studying the fine arts

1

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Vocabulary list: 古寺巡礼