天竺 tiānzhú

tiānzhú proper noun India; Indian subcontinent
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A historic term used as early as the 后汉书 Later Book of Han (GDNH, p. 187; Kroll 2015 '天' 6)

Contained in

• 历遊天竺记传(歷遊天竺記傳) A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms; Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms; Fa Xian's Pilgrimage to India
• 北天竺 Northern India
• 故天竺诸国谓之天书(故天竺諸國謂之天書) Therefore, the kingdoms of India called these [Brahmī and Kharoṣṭhī] sacred scripts.
• 中天竺舍卫国祇洹寺图经(中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經) Zhong Tianzhu Shewei Guo Zhihuan Si Tu Jing
• 天竺语(天竺語) Sanskrit
• 天竺菩提树(天竺菩提樹) bodhi tree; pippala; Indian sacred fig tree
• 悉曇天竺文字也 Siddham is an Indian script
• 中天竺 Central North India ; middle region of India; madhyadeśa
• 天竺科轨非其所谙(天竺科軌非其所諳) not well versed in Indian traditional education
• 天竺三藏求那跋陀罗(天竺三藏求那跋陀羅) Guṇabhadra; Gunabhadra

Also contained in

天竺人 、 天竺乐 、 南天竺 、 天竺牡丹 、 天竺葵 、 天竺鼠

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 12 Record of Buddhist Teachings Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era 開元釋教錄 — count: 116
• Scroll 20 Record of Buddhist Teachings Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era 開元釋教錄 — count: 97
• Scroll 22 Zhen Yuan Era Catalog of Newly Authorized Buddhist Teachings (Zhen Yuan Xin Ding Shijiao Mulu) 貞元新定釋教目錄 — count: 77
• Scroll 1 Summary Catalog of Buddhist Teachings Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era (Kaiyuan Shijiao Lu Lue Chu) 開元釋教錄略出 — count: 70
• Scroll 2 Summary Catalog of Buddhist Teachings Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era (Kaiyuan Shijiao Lu Lue Chu) 開元釋教錄略出 — count: 69
• Scroll 14 Record of Buddhist Teachings Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era 開元釋教錄 — count: 65
• Scroll 21 Zhen Yuan Era Catalog of Newly Authorized Buddhist Teachings (Zhen Yuan Xin Ding Shijiao Mulu) 貞元新定釋教目錄 — count: 63
• Scroll 24 Zhen Yuan Era Catalog of Newly Authorized Buddhist Teachings (Zhen Yuan Xin Ding Shijiao Mulu) 貞元新定釋教目錄 — count: 59
• Scroll 11 Record of Buddhist Teachings Compiled During the Kaiyuan Era 開元釋教錄 — count: 49
• Scroll 23 Zhen Yuan Era Catalog of Newly Authorized Buddhist Teachings (Zhen Yuan Xin Ding Shijiao Mulu) 貞元新定釋教目錄 — count: 45

Collocations

• 天竺三藏 (天竺三藏) 隋天竺三藏闍那崛多等譯 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 1 — count: 663
• 隋天竺 (隋天竺) 隋天竺三藏闍那崛多等譯 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 1 — count: 192
• 东晋天竺 (東晉天竺) 東晉天竺三藏曇無蘭譯 — Xin Sui Jing (Pravāraṇasūtra) 新歲經, Scroll 1 — count: 145
• 北凉天竺 (北涼天竺) 北涼天竺三藏曇無讖譯 — Bei Hua Jing (Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra) 悲華經, Scroll 1 — count: 98
• 大唐天竺 (大唐天竺) 大唐天竺三藏地婆訶羅奉 — Fang Guang Da Zhuangyan Jing (Lalitavistara) 方廣大莊嚴經, Scroll 1 — count: 72
• 元魏天竺 (元魏天竺) 元魏天竺三藏佛陀扇多譯 — Yinse Nu Jing (Pūpāvatyāvadānā) 銀色女經, Scroll 1 — count: 61
• 唐天竺 (唐天竺) 唐天竺三藏地婆訶羅譯 — Fang Guang Da Zhuangyan Jing (Lalitavistara) 方廣大莊嚴經, Scroll 11 — count: 59
• 天竺沙门 (天竺沙門) 隋天竺沙門達摩笈多譯 — Sutra on the Causes and Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Yin Ben Jing) 起世因本經, Scroll 1 — count: 32
• 高齐天竺 (高齊天竺) 高齊天竺三藏那連提耶舍譯 — Mahākaruṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra (Dabei Jing) 大悲經, Scroll 1 — count: 32
• 天竺国 (天竺國) 南有天竺國天子 — Shi Er You Jing 佛說十二遊經, Scroll 1 — count: 22