大愿地藏菩萨
Traditional form:
大願地藏菩薩
Pinyin (reading):
Dàyuàn Dìzàng Púsà
Definitions:
- Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)
- also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
Characters:
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 愿 - desire, wish; honest, virtuous; ready, willing
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 藏 - to conceal, to hide; to hoard, to store
- 菩 - herb, aromatic plant
- 萨 - Buddhist diety; used in transliterations
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