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Japanese
Etymology
多聞 (“all hearing”) + 天 (“deva”), Middle Chinese 多聞天王 (MC ta mjun|mjunH then hjwang|hjwangH, literally “All-Hearing Heavenly King”), calque of Sanskrit वैश्रवण (vaiśravaṇa, literally “All Hearer”)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
多聞天 • (Tamonten)
- (Buddhism) Synonym of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa”)
- Hypernym: 四天王