日光菩薩

Chinese

		sunlight; sunshine; sunbeam sunlight; sunshine; sunbeam; daylight; Sūryaprabha bodhisattva	bodhisattva; kind-hearted person; kind and charitable person
trad. (日光菩薩)		日光	菩薩
simp. (日光菩萨)		日光	菩萨

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit सूर्यप्रभ (sūryaprabha, literally “sun light”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Rìguāng Púsà

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Rìguāng Púsà
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Rìhguang Púsà
    • Wade–Giles: Jih⁴-kuang¹ Pʻu²-sa⁴
    • Yale: R̀-gwāng Pú-sà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ryhguang Pwusah
    • Palladius: Жигуан Пуса (Žiguan Pusa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐ̩⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ pʰu³⁵ sä⁵¹/

Proper noun

日光菩薩

1. (Buddhism) Sūryaprabha bodhisattva

   Synonym: 蘇利也波羅皮遮那／苏利也波罗皮遮那

Further reading

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “日光菩薩” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].