Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

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初 [beginning]

初中後 [beginning, middle, and after]

初中後際 [beginning, middle, and later periods]

初二果 [the first two fruits of the four fruits of the lesser vehicle path]

初位 [first stage]

初住 [first abode]

初修業 [initial practice]

初修觀菩薩 [novice bodhisattvas]

初僧祗 [first incalculable eon]

初刹那識 [first moment of consciousness]

初善 [good in the beginning]

初因 [the first cause]

初地 [first ground]

初增上慧住 [the first abode of superior wisdom]

初夜 [the first watch of the night]

初始發心 [very first arousal of the intention for enlightenment]

初學 [a beginner]

初心 [beginner's mind]

初念 [first thought; first moment of thought]

初日 [beginning of the day]

初日分 [first part of the day]

初時 [the initial time]

初時教 [first teaching period]

初更 [first watch of the night]

初期佛教 [early Buddhism]

初果 [first realization]

初果向 [ascending to stream winner]

初業 [first activity]

初歡喜地 [the first, the stage of joy]

初正信 [first stage of correct faith]

初無漏 [first [stage of] uncontaminated [practice]]

初生 [first arises]

初番 [first part; first stage]

初發 [first arousal [of the enlightened mind]]

初發心 [first arousal of the determination for enlightenment]

初發意 [initial arousal of the intention for enlightenment]

初發意菩薩 [bodhisattva in the initial stage of aspiration]

初知 [the first to know]

初禪 [first meditation]

初禪三天 [three levels of the first concentration]

初禪天 [first meditation heaven]

初禪定 [the first concentration]

初禪梵天 [first brahma heaven]

初緣 [first condition]

初總序 [preliminary statement]

初能變 [first transformer [consciousness]]

初行者 [novice practitioner]

初語 [the beginning part of a speech]

初證得 [first attainment [of enlightenment]]

初證得時 [time of initial attainment]

初起 [initial activation of something]

初轉法輪 [first turning of the wheel of the dharma]

初靜慮 [the first concentration]

初靜慮地 [the level of the first meditation]

Updated: 2007-01-18