因缘 (因緣) yīnyuán

  1. yīnyuán noun chance
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '因緣' 1)
  2. yīnyuán noun destiny
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '因緣' 24)
  3. yīnyuán phrase according to this
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '因緣' 3)
  4. yīnyuán noun causes and conditions
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Fo Guang Shan
    Notes: (Glossary of Humanistic Buddhism)
  5. yīnyuán noun cause and conditions; principal and secondary causes; chain of cause and effect; primary cause; nidāna
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: nidāna, Pali: nidāna, Japanese: innen, or: nidana, Tibetan: gzhi, or: gleng gzhi; especially in relation to the chain of dependent origination (BL 'nidāna', p. 583; Tzu Chuang 2012, p. 38; FGDB '因緣'; Kroll 2015 '因' 3b). For example, 這是因為宇宙萬有都是因緣和合所生 'This is because all the things in the universe are interrelated through causes and conditions.' (Hsing Yun 2006)
  6. yīnyuán noun Nidana (expositions of causes); a story of an occasion in the Buddhha's life
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: (BL 'nidāna'; Tzu Chuang 2012)
  7. yīnyuán noun a passage in a sūtra describing the setting
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: (BL 'nidāna')

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