一切經音義 75.37

75.37

Needle-pricking wind [鍼風] (the first character is pronounced *zhang* + *ren* [zhēn]. In popular usage it is written with "ten" [十] as 針, or with "bamboo" [竹] as 箴. The *Shuowen* states: 'An implement for mending clothes.' All three forms are phono-semantic characters. The *Shenglei* states: 'Needling and pricking.' When the sūtra refers to 'needle-pricking wind,' it means that when a person is about to die, a transformed internal wind arises and moves through the body, feeling like needles pricking the flesh, causing severe pain and suffering).