堂 táng

1. táng noun main hall; a large room
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '堂' 1; FE '堂' 1; Unihan '堂')
2. táng measure word set; session
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: A measure word for classes, 堂 is used for (1) sets of furniture and (2) educational classes (CCD '堂' 7; FE '堂' 7).
3. táng noun a court; a government office
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Government
   Notes: (CCD '堂' 3; FE '堂' 2; Unihan '堂')
4. táng noun a special purpose building
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Such as an auditorium (CCD '堂' 2)
5. táng noun a shrine
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '堂' 4)
6. táng noun a polite way to refer to someone's mother
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '堂' 3)
7. táng noun an open area on a hill
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '堂' 4)
8. táng noun relatives of the same grandfather
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 堂哥 'elder male cousin' (FE '堂' 5)
9. táng adjective imposing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '堂' 6)
10. táng measure word team; group
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '堂' 8)
11. táng measure word measure word for classes or courses
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '堂' n 6)
12. táng noun assembly hall; prāsāda
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: prāsāda, Japanese: dou, or: tou (BCSD '堂', p. 297; MW 'prāsāda'; SH '堂', p. 345; Unihan '堂')

Contained in

• 怀恩堂(懷恩堂) Huai-en Hall
• 副堂主 Deputy Director (of SR, meditation hall)
• 南堂录(南堂錄) Quotes from Chan Master Liao An Qing
• 前堂 Front Hall
• 随堂开示录 4：集会共修(隨堂開示錄 4：集會共修) Collection of Talks from Dharma Services: Cultivation Gatherings
• 金玉满堂 10：法相(金玉滿堂 10：法相) A House Full of Gold and Jade- Faxiang: Buddhist Terminology
• 戒坛堂(戒壇堂) ordination hall
• 天堂地狱一念之间(天堂地獄一念之間) Heaven and hell are all in a moment of thought.
• 护摩堂(護摩堂) homa shrine
• 万寿堂(萬壽堂) Longevity Hall
• 金玉满堂 1：佛光菜根谭(金玉滿堂 1：佛光菜根譚) A House Full of Gold and Jade- Roots of Wisdom
• 住善法堂天 Sudharmanivāsinī
• 圣僧堂(聖僧堂) monastic hall
• 过堂(過堂) to appear in court for trial ; Formal Buddhist Meal ; to have a meal together in the temple hall
• 东禅客堂(東禪客堂) East Chan Reception Center
• 寺院庵堂 Structures and Buildings
• 枯木堂 monastic hall
• 影堂 ancestral hall ; founders hall
• 心中烦恼无明即地狱 心中菩提正见即天堂 心中忧悲苦恼是娑婆 心中安乐幸福是净土(心中煩惱無明即地獄 心中菩提正見即天堂 心中憂悲苦惱是娑婆 心中安樂幸福是淨土) Affliction and ignorance take one to hell. Bodhi and right view take one to heaven. Sadness, sorrow, trouble, and affliction take one to the Saha World. Happiness, peace, and joy take one to the Pure Land.
• 宗务堂(宗務堂) Office of the Board of Directors
• 五参上堂(五參上堂) ascent to the hall on every-fifth day
• 随堂开示录(隨堂開示錄) Collection of Talks from Dharma Services
• 东园鹿母讲堂(東園鹿母講堂) Eastern Monastery, the palace of Migara's mother

Also contained in

高堂 、 中山堂 、 洋务学堂 、 承审公堂 、 尊堂 、 店堂 、 堂房 、 犹太教堂 、 满堂彩 、 阅微草堂笔记 、 平山堂 、 堂前 、 拖堂 、 庙堂 、 堂姊妹 、 家累千金，坐不垂堂 、 堂兄 、 犹太会堂 、 杜甫草堂 、 堂堂 、 印堂 、 寿堂 、 会堂 、 跑堂儿的 、 学堂 、 堂堂正正 、 随堂测验 、 燕雀处堂

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 7 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 65
• Scroll 5 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 61
• Scroll 3 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 57
• Scroll 6 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 54
• Scroll 1 Da Hui Pu Jue Chan Shi Zong Men Wu Ku 大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 — count: 51
• Scroll 24 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 48
• Scroll 2 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 45
• Scroll 4 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 45
• Scroll 3 Treasured Instructions of Chan Temples (Chanlin Baoxun) 禪林寶訓 — count: 44
• Scroll 22 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 39

Collocations

• 善法堂 (善法堂) 其善見城內有善法堂 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 20 — count: 40
• 堂诸天 (堂諸天) 此善法堂諸天集處 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 6 — count: 21
• 堂上 (堂上) 往堂上坐 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 20
• 堂阁 (堂閣) 及以堂閣施 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 19
• 昇堂 (昇堂) 昇堂敷床 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 9 — count: 13
• 堂观 (堂觀) 又千世界中所有堂觀無及此堂 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 21 — count: 11
• 供养堂 (供養堂) 有迦毘羅衛釋氏集供養堂 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 33 — count: 11
• 议堂 (議堂) 於其城內別立議堂 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 20 — count: 10
• 堂敷 (堂敷) 昇堂敷床 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 9 — count: 9
• 堂上来 (堂上來) 堂上來下 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 27 — count: 8