一切經音義 69.94

English (machine translation) 69.94

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69.94

Niche for spirits (靈龕: [龕 is pronounced] ku-gan fan; the Kaosheng says: "Chiseling the rock-face of a mountain to make a pit." The Guangya says: "龕 means to contain." The Wenzidian shuo says: "A place where Buddha images are placed; [the character] takes 龍 ('dragon') as semantic and 今 as phonetic." The popular form written with 合 as 龕 is incorrect).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese