DHARMA: CARRYING, HOLDING
Dharma Skt., lit. carrying, holding. [Hinduism] comprehensive term used to ref er to that which determines our true essence; righteousness; […]
Dharma Skt., lit. carrying, holding. [Hinduism] comprehensive term used to ref er to that which determines our true essence; righteousness; […]
Dashabala (daśabala), Skt. (Pali, dasabala), lit. “ten powers”; designates ten abilities possessed by a buddha, which confer the following kinds
Hui-neng (Jap., E’nō), also called Wei-lang, 638-713; the sixth patriarch of Ch’an (Zen) in China; a student and dharma successor
Hung-jen (Jap., Gunin or Konin), 601-74; the fifth patriarch of Ch’an (Zen) in China; the dharma successor (hassu) of Tao-hsin
Tao-hsin (Jap., Dōshin) 580-6 51; the fourth patriarch (soshigata) of Ch’an (Zen) in China; the student and dharma successor (hassu)
Seng-ts’an (Jap. Sōsan), d. 606?; the third patriarch (soshigata) of Ch’an (Zen) in China; the dharma successor (hassu) of Hui-k’o
Hui-k’o (Jap., Eka), 487-593; the second patriarch of Ch’an (Zen) in China. He was the dharma successor (hassu) of Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma Chin., P’u-t’i-ta-mo or Tamo; Jap., Bodaidaruma or Daruma, ca. 470-543 (?); the twenty-eighth patriarch after Shākyamuni Buddha in the
Prajñādhāra (Jap., Hannyatara); twenty seventh patriarch in the Indian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and
Punyamitra twenty-sixth patriarch of the Indian lineage of Ch’an (Zen). Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism,