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Japanese
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| 舍利子 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
From Middle Chinese 舍利子 (MC syaeX|syaeH lijH tsiX).
Literally “Śāri's son”, or erroneously, “Master Śāri”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
舎利子 • (Sharishi)
- (Buddhism) Synonym of 舎利弗 (Sharihotsu): Śāriputra, one of the disciples of Gautama Buddha
- 7th century, Shorter Prajñāpāramitā-hṛdaya Sutra (translation by Xuanzang)
- 舎利子。色不異空。空不異色。色即是空。空即是色。受想行識亦復如是。舎利子。是諸法空相。不生不滅。不垢不浄。不増不減。
- Sharishi, shiki fu i kū, kū fu i shiki, shiki soku ze kū, kū soku ze shiki. Ju sō gyō shiki, yaku bu nyoze. Sharishi, ze shohō kūsō, fu shō fu metsu, fu ku fu jō, fu zō fu gen.
- “Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form form is exactly emptiness; emptiness exactly form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. Shariputra, all things are marked by emptiness: not born, not destroyed, not tainted, not pure, without gain, without loss.”[1]
References
- ^ Matthew Davis, Michael Farrell Scott (2006) Opening the Mountain: Circumambulating Mount Tamalpais: a Ritual Walk (Spirituality Series), illustrated edition, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 32