created sense approved 尘缘/塵緣 · chényuán · worldly ties — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
尘缘 / 塵緣
chényuán
worldly ties
The bonds or connections to the secular world; worldly or carnal thoughts that prevent spiritual liberation. This is originally a Buddhist and Taoist concept.
尘 (literal) → 尘/塵 · chén · sensory objects 缘 (literal) → 缘/緣 · yuán · fate
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition