五灯会元
wǔ​dēng​huì​yuán

Wudeng Huiyuan

  • created sense approved 五灯会元/五燈會元 · wǔ​dēng​huì​yuán · Wudeng Huiyuan — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    五灯会元 / 五燈會元

    wǔ​dēng​huì​yuán

    Wudeng Huiyuan

    Compendium of Five Lamps; a 20-volume Song Dynasty history of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China compiled by the monk Puji in 1252. It condenses five earlier chronicles of the lineage, teachings, and sayings of Zen masters.

    五 (literal) → 五 · wǔ · five 灯 (literal) → 灯/燈 · dēng · Dharma 会元 (literal) → 会元/會元 · huì​yuán · compendium

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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