法眼

Chinese

		law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)	eye
simp. and trad. (法眼)		法	眼

"eye of the law"; etc.: Calque of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit धर्म चक्षु m (dharmacakṣu, literally “dharma-eye”), which is cognate to Pali dhammacakkhu, or the us-stem equivalent ॰चक्षुस्. The Tibetan equivalent is ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག (chos kyi mig) or ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྤྱན (chos kyi spyan).
"Buddhist teaching; etc": Calque of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit धर्म नेत्री f (dharmanetrī, “dharma-teaching; dharma-way; dharma-guide”), from Sanskrit नेत्र (netra, “guide; eye”) (see Ji, 1998v7). Corresponds to the Tibetan ཆོས་ཚུལ (chos tshul). The BHS compound may be understood as bahuvrihi: "[the wisdom विद्या f (vidyā), the perfection पारमिता f (pāramitā), etc.] that has the dharma as its guide/principle"

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǎyǎn [Phonetic: fáyǎn]
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ ㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǎyǎn
  - Wade–Giles: fa³-yen³
  - Yale: fǎ-yǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faayean
  - Palladius: фаянь (fajanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: faat³ ngaan⁵
  - Yale: faat ngáahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ ngaan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: fad³ ngan⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ ŋaːn¹³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: huák-ngāng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ ŋaŋ³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-gán
  - Tâi-lô: huat-gán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoatgarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ ɡan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²⁻⁵ ɡan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ ɡan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ ɡan⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷faq-nge
  - MiniDict: fah^入 nge
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴faq-nge
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /faʔ³³ ŋe⁴⁴/

法眼

(Buddhism) "eye of the law" (either "mind which perceives both past and future" or "insight into the dharma")
(Buddhism) Buddhist teaching
- 云何佛說此法眼，令諸弟子如佛學。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  云何佛说此法眼，令诸弟子如佛学。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 1001, *Devaśāntika (天息災) aka. Faxian (法賢), trans. Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā (《佛母寶德藏般若波羅蜜經》)
  Yúnhé Fó shuō cǐ fǎyǎn, lìng zhū dìzǐ rú Fó xué. [Pinyin]
  Why does the Buddha speak of this dharma-teaching? So that his pupils (may) learn and become like the Buddha.
(figurative) insight; astuteness; perspicacity; cognizance
(often humble or ironic) someone's appreciation, notice, or acknowledgement

Sino-Xenic (法眼):

法(ほう)眼(げん) • (hōgen)

(Buddhism, historical) high priest; the second-highest rank of Buddhist priest in the Japanese court
(Buddhism, archaic) a title of respect for Buddhist monks, artists, or samurai