| 释义 |
Shingon|ˈʃɪŋgɒn|
Also 9 Singon.
[Jap., = true word, mantra, f. shin true + gon word.]
The name of a Buddhist sect founded in Japan in the eighth century and devoted to esoteric Buddhism. Also attrib.
1727J. G. Scheuchzer tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. ii. v. 199 In the 1850 streets of this city, there were..10 070 of the sect Singon. 1834Chinese Repository Nov. 323 There are now in Japan the following sects which are tolerated by government. 1. Zen... 5. Singon... Singon means to repeat true psalms. 1880E. J. Reed Japan I. iv. 81 The learned Kobo Daishi..was likewise the founder of the Shingon (‘True Words’) sect of Buddhists in Japan. 1894Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan XXII. 382 (heading) The history of the Shingon sect. 1908A. Lloyd Wheat among Tares iv. 40 Kōbō's faith—the so-called Mantra or Shingon Buddhism—so much resembles Manichaeism that it may be said to be practically the same system. 1931G. B. Sansom Japan iii. xii. 222 The Shingon doctrines are mystical, and not to be explained in words. 1961Listener 31 Aug. 316/1 A Buddhist sect, called Shingon,..is one of the most flourishing sects in Japan today. 1977T. Kashima Buddhism in America i. 4 Shingon Buddhism..is based on the Dainichi Sutra (the Great Sun Sutra). |