ゴウ
Meanings
Noun
Buddhist
1. karma
2. result of one's karma; fate; destiny
3. uncontrollable temper
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow
hellfire; flames of hell; raging fire; large fire; fire that consumes an evildoer
spite; resentment
sin; iniquity; crime
karma (from one's previous life)
unnatural or untimely (death)
bad karma; sinful deed; evil deed
heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life
stubbornness; pigheaded person; miser
incurable disease
karmic suffering
karma effects; fate; inevitable retribution
good deeds
prank; joke
three activities (action, speech and thought)
auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering)
effects of karma
correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha)
right action; correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha)
five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)
agami karma; karma with a cause and effect in this life
karmic retribution through the past, present, and future; three types of karma
sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next life
sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next life
prarabdha karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect comes in the life after the next life or later