八苦

Japanese

Kanji in this term
八 苦
はち > はっ
Grade: 1 		く
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

八苦(はっく) • (hakku) 

  1. (Buddhism) the eight kinds of suffering: birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.