一切經音義 65.168

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65.168

Monastery (dasi 大寺; in Sanskrit vihāra [鼻詩羅], which translates here as 'roaming'—the place where monks walk and dwell. From of old it was substituted with the word 'si' (寺). A si is an official bureau, a public residence having laws and regulations. The Shiming says: 'Si means to succeed (si 嗣); administrators succeed one another within it.' The character is derived from cun (寸) with zhi (㞢) as phonetic; 㞢 is an ancient form of zhi (之)).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese