本生 běnshēng

  1. běnshēng phrase those who gave me life
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: parents (Guoyu '本生經')
  2. běnshēng noun Jataka; stories of the Buddha’s previous lives
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: jātaka, Pali: jātaka; Japanese: honshōkyō, Tibetan: skyes rabs. Jātaka is a popular genre of Buddhist literature consisting of a story from the life or past life of Gautama Buddha. It is one of the twelve divisions of the sutras 十二部經 or one of the 九部經 navaṅga 'nine categories' of literary composition. There are 547 Jātaka stories in the Pali Canon and a different set in the Jātakamālā 本生鬘, in Sanskrit. The Jātaka is made up of verse with a Jātakaṭṭhakathā 'prose commentary.' (BL 'jātaka'; Buddhadatta 1958 'jātaka'; Tzu Chuang 2012; FGDB '本生經'; Hirakawa 1683 '本生', p. 643; MW 'jAtaka'; Pali Text Society 2013 'jātaka')

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