大般涅槃经
Traditional form:
大般涅槃經
Pinyin (reading):
Dà Bānnièpán Jīng
Definitions:
- (Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism
Characters:
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 般 - sort, manner, kind, class
- 涅 - to blacken; slime, black mud
- 槃 - tray; to rotate, to turn; to search
- 经 - the classics; to experience, to undergo
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