Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
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先 [front, in front]
先世 [prior lifetime]
先世業 [karma accumulated from previous lives]
先世資糧 [accumulation from prior lives]
先來 [originally]
先修 [first cultivates]
先修止行 [previously cultivated tranquility]
先哲 [wise men of old]
先尋思 [preceded by reflection]
先尼 [sainika]
先已 [previously]
先已生 [having already happened]
先所受 [received (experienced) earlier]
先所得 [previously acquired]
先時 [before]
先有後無 [prior exists, but no subsequent]
先業 [prior karma]
先業後果 [prior action (karma) and subsequent effect]
先止後食 [not accepting food after having risen from one's seat]
先照高山 [the rising sun first shines on the highest mountains]
先生 [senior]
先習 [prior habituation]
先習起 [arisen from prior habituation]
先習起種子 [seeds arisen from previous habituation]
先行 [previously active]
先言 [to speak sincerely]
先言問訊 [to question in sincere language (?)]
先語 [first declared; spoken earlier]
先語省問 [to respectfully salute]
先說 [explained before]
先起 [first arises]
先蹤 [precedents; traces]
先進 [senior rank]
先過去 [bygone]
先達 [senior practitioner of the path]
先陀 [saindhava]
先陀婆 [four necessities]
先陀客 [a person of sharp intelligence]
先陳 [subject]
先首語 [urbane speech]
Updated: 2007-01-18