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First Turn of the Dharma Wheel in Chinese / Japanese...

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First Turn of the Dharma Wheel

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 chū zhuàn fǎ lún
 sho ten bourin
 초전법륜
First Turn of the Dharma Wheel Scroll

初轉法輪 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja for the first turning of the wheel of the dharma.




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Wheel of Buddhism Symbol Print Wall Scroll

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Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

 Pronunciation
Romanization		 Simple Dictionary Definition

法輪

法轮

see styles		 fǎ lún
    fa3 lun2
fa lun
 noriwa
    のりわ

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Eternal Wheel of Life
the Eternal Wheel of life in Buddhism
{Buddh} (See 輪宝,転法輪) the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine; (surname) Noriwa
dharmacakra, the Wheel of the Law, Buddha-truth which is able to crush all evil and all opposition, like Indra's wheel, and which rolls on from man to man, place to place, age to age. 轉法輪To turn, or roll along the Law-wheel, i.e. to preach Buddha-truth.

轉法輪

转法轮

see styles		 zhuǎn fǎ lún
    zhuan3 fa3 lun2
chuan fa lun
 tenpourin / tenporin
    てんぽうりん

轉法輪
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to transmit Buddhist teaching; chakram or chakka (throwing disk)
(surname) Tenpourin
To turn the dharma-cakra, or wheel of dharma, to preach, to teach, to explain the religion of Buddha.

轉大法輪

转大法轮

see styles		 zhuǎn dà fǎ lún
    zhuan3 da4 fa3 lun2
chuan ta fa lun
 ten daibōrin

轉大法輪
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turn the great wheel of dharma

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
First Turn of the Dharma Wheel初轉法輪
初转法轮		sho ten bourin
shotenbourin
sho ten borin		chū zhuàn fǎ lún
chu1 zhuan4 fa3 lun2
chu zhuan fa lun
chuzhuanfalun		ch`u chuan fa lun
chuchuanfalun
chu chuan fa lun
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.


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A professional Chinese Calligrapher

Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.

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Trying to learn Chinese calligrapher - a futile effort

Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.

A high-ranked Chinese master calligrapher that I met in Zhongwei

The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.


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