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purusha

/poor-uh-shuh/US // ˈpʊər ə ʃə //

菩萨,法身,菩提心,斋戒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Hinduism.

    • : one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.

Examples

  • He supplied the protoplasm of the Tinnehs, as Purusha did that of the Aryan world, out of his own body.

  • The Purusha Sukta is the type of many other Indian myths of creation, of which the following one is extremely noteworthy.

  • The two greatest sacrifices were the purusha-medha, the human sacrifice, and aswa-medha, the sacrifice of the horse.

  • From the myth of the chaos-giant Purusha we pass to the higher pantheistic conception of Brahmă, the soul of the Universe.

  • In Indian mythology Purusha, the chaos giant, first divided himself.