天命 tiānmìng
tiānmìng
proper noun
tianming; Mandate of Heaven
Domain: History 历史
, Subdomain: Confucianism
Notes: A concept in Confucian thought that legitimizes the ruler and the taking over of one dynasty by another (Yao 2000, p. 144)
Also contained in
天命有归 、 五十而知天命 、 天命成败 、 听天命 、 天命真主
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 5 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 18
- Scroll 23 Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra (Sutra of the Right Mindfulness of Dharma) 正法念處經 — count: 9
- Scroll 8 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 6
- Scroll 24 Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra (Sutra of the Right Mindfulness of Dharma) 正法念處經 — count: 5
- Scroll 4 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 4
- Scroll 14 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 3 , has English translation
- Scroll 45 Jing Lu Yi Xiang 經律異相 — count: 3
- Scroll 11 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 3
- Scroll 39 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 3 , has English translation
- Scroll 28 Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra (Sutra of the Right Mindfulness of Dharma) 正法念處經 — count: 3
Collocations
- 天命终 (天命終) 其諸眾生從天命終還生天上者亦如是 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 41
- 知天命 (知天命) 知天命 — Long Shu Zeng Guang Jing Tu Wen 龍舒增廣淨土文, Scroll 9 — count: 6
- 承天命 (承天命) 作是教已敬承天命 — Mūlasarvāstivādabhikṣuṇīvinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Bi Chu Ni Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部苾芻尼毘奈耶, Scroll 1 — count: 6
- 曰天命 (曰天命) 雖曰天命 — Long Shu Zeng Guang Jing Tu Wen 龍舒增廣淨土文, Scroll 1 — count: 5
- 受天命 (受天命) 既受天命略定西北諸國 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 22 — count: 5
- 畏天命 (畏天命) 畏天命畏大人畏聖人之言 — A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀, Scroll 38 — count: 4
- 天命令 (天命令) 既承天命令拒 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 9 — count: 3
- 膺天命 (膺天命) 我皇誕膺天命弘濟區宇 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 11 — count: 3
- 不知天命 (不知天命) 汝不知天命 — Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論, Scroll 14 — count: 3
- 天命终生 (天命終生) 從天命終生欝單曰 — Saṅghāṭīsūtradharmaparyāya (Sanghata Sutra) 僧伽吒經, Scroll 2 — count: 3