Pāli Dictionary

padhāna

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Part of speech

noun

Root

dhā1置;持

Synonyms


doctrine

  • 精進;努力;勤奮(常指四正勤或禪修中的精進)

  • exertion; energetic effort; striving; spiritual striving in meditation (often referring to the four right exertions)

general

  • 主要的;首要的;最重要的;(作名詞)首長;大臣

  • chief; foremost; principal; most important; (as noun) a king’s chief companion or minister

cosmology

  • 根本原質;自性(數論派哲學體系中的基本概念「Pradhāna」)

  • the original source of the material world; nature; the Basic Principle (Pradhāna) in the Sāṃkhya philosophical system

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