ごう
Meanings
Noun
Buddhist
1. karma
2. result of one's karma; fate; destiny
3. uncontrollable temper
Kanji used
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Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow
hellfire; flames of hell; raging fire; large fire; fire that consumes an evildoer
to lose one's temper; to lose patience; to have enough; to be exasperated; to become irritated; to get fed up
spite; resentment
sin; iniquity; crime
karma (from one's previous life)
past redemption; sinful
bad karma; sinful deed; evil deed
unnatural or untimely (death)
heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life
incurable disease
stubbornness; pigheaded person; miser
karmic suffering
to lose one's temper; to lose patience; to have enough; to be exasperated; to become irritated; to get fed up
karma effects; fate; inevitable retribution
three activities (action, speech and thought)
auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering)
prank; joke
five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)
karmic retribution through the past, present, and future; three types of karma
sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next life
prarabdha karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect comes in the life after the next life or later
correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha)
right action; correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha)
effects of karma
agami karma; karma with a cause and effect in this life
sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next life