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本尊
Mandarin · pinyin běn zūn
Meanings
- (Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity)
- the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar
- (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身 fēn shēn)
- (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article
- the real McCoy
- the man himself
- the woman herself
- the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
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3–1 · ben3 zun1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bun2 zyun1
Cantonese word readings for 本尊. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (Buddhism) the idol or other main object of worship at a temple; the principal image; yidam
- (neologism, slang) the original (person, version, etc.), as opposed to an imitator
pron
- a first person pronoun used by deities in Chinese fiction
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