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vihara

/vi-hahr-uh/US // vɪˈhɑr ə //

寺院,寺庙,僧院,僧团

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a meeting place of Buddhist monks.
    • : a Buddhist monastery.
    • : Also called Brahma Vihara. one of the four states of mind, namely love, compassion, sympathetic gladness, and equanimity, to be developed by every Buddhist.

Examples

  • This disagreement is very embarrassing when people try to conjecture the antiquity of this or that vihara or chaitya.

  • A path, or rather a ledge cut along the perpendicular face of a rocky mass 200 feet high, led from the chief temple to our vihara.

  • In a few minutes more we were on the verandah of our vihara, where we found our Hindu friends, who had arrived by another path.

  • In the chief hall of the vihara was a life-sized statue of Bhavani, the feminine aspect of Shiva.

  • Of course, in this case it would be perfectly right to think it is a Buddhist vihara.