一切經音義 41.74

English (machine translation) 41.74

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41.74

Not choosing (不楝: fanqie jiān-yǎn. The Wenzi jilüe says: "Jiǎn (揀) means to choose and select; composed of the hand radical with dōng (東) phonetic." The Shuowen jiezi has it as dōng (東): "To distinguish and select; composed of bā (八) and shù (束); bā depicts the eight directions." In the sūtra text, writing it as 簡 is not the original character).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese