斋 (齋) zhāi

1. zhāi verb to abstain from meat or wine
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Usually a Buddhist context (Kroll 2015 '齋' 2; Mathews 1931 '齋', p. 12; NCCED '斋' 1; Unihan '齋')
2. zhāi noun a vegetarian diet; vegetarian food
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 素食 (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 1; Guoyu '齋' n 1; NCCED '斋' 3; Unihan '齋')
3. zhāi noun a building; a room; a studio
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 2; Guoyu '齋' n 3; NCCED '斋' 2)
4. zhāi verb to give alms
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: (Guoyu '齋' v 2; NCCED '斋' 4)
5. zhāi verb to fast
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 6; NCCED '斋' 5; Unihan '齋')
6. zhāi noun student dormitory
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 3; Guoyu '齋' n 3)
7. zhāi noun a study; a library; a school
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 4; Mathews 1931 '齋', p. 12)
8. zhāi noun a temple hostel
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 5)
9. zhāi verb to purify oneself
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Before a ritual by bathing, fasting, or meditation (ABC 'zhāi' 斋 bf 6; Guoyu '齋' v 1; Kroll 2015 '齋' 1; Mathews 1931 '齋', p. 12)
10. zhāi verb to retreat
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For reading, writing, or contemplation (Kroll 2015 '齋' 3)
11. zhāi noun various rituals
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Taoism
    Notes: (Guoyu '齋' n 2; Kroll 2015 '齋' 4)
12. zhāi noun abstinence; upavāsa
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: upavāsa, Japanese: sai, or: toki (BCSD '齋', p. 195; DJBT '齋', p. 423; MW 'upavāsa'; SH '齋', p. 464)

Contained in

• 天台智者大师斋忌礼赞文(天台智者大師齋忌禮讚文) Tiantai Zhizhe Dashi Zhai Ji Lizan Wen
• 观音斋(觀音齋) Guanyin fasting
• 四斋日(四齋日) four days of purification
• 吃斋(吃齋) to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian ; Vegetarianism
• 悲斋会(悲齋會) Water and Land Service
• 水陆斋仪(水陸齋儀) Water and Land Service
• 年斋(年齋) New Year's feast
• 持斋(持齋) to keep a fast
• 监斋使者(監齋使者) to protect vegetarian food
• 临斋(臨齋) time for midday meal
• 十斋(十齋) the ten fasting days of the month
• 七七斋(七七齋) ceremonies seven times every seventh day
• 愚童持斋心(愚童持齋心) to maintain abstinence with the virtue of a child
• 八关斋(八關齋) the eight precepts
• 化斋(化齋) to beg for food
• 三长斋月(三長齋月) three full months of abstinence
• 洁斋(潔齋) to purify through abstinence
• 大斋(大齋) great vegetarian feast
• 八关斋经(八關齋經) Astangasamanvagata Sutra (Sutra on the Eight Purification Precepts ) ; Ba Guan Zhai Jing
• 素斋谈禅(素齋談禪) A Discussion of Ch'an Over a Vegetarian Meal
• 罢讲斋(罷講齋) to finish teaching and provide food for the monastic community
• 斋日(齋日) the Day of Purification
• 一日斋(一日齋) maintaining the precepts throughout the day
• 斋戒(齋戒) to abstain from eating meat ; Sawm; Fasting ; a purification rule ; Observance of Fasting and Precepts ; a precept
• 累七斋(累七齋) ceremonies seven times every seventh day
• 六斋日(六齋日) six days of abstinence ; Six Days of Purification
• 吃早斋(吃早齋) vegetarian breakfast
• 打斋饭(打齋飯) to beg for food
• 大斋会(大齋會) great vegetarian feast
• 僧斋(僧齋) to provide a meal for monastics
• 水陆斋(水陸齋) Water and Land Service
• 三日斋(三日齋) Third Day Ceremony
• 愚痴斋(愚癡齋) a feast to warn against ignorance

Also contained in

开斋 、 脂砚斋 、 斋居蔬食 、 斋慄 、 斋心 、 斋月 、 诚斋乐府 、 斋戒月 、 书斋 、 斋坛 、 斋馆 、 封斋节 、 真武斋 、 月落斋 、 开斋节 、 日落斋 、 大斋节 、 守斋

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 91 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 54
• Scroll 1 Sarvāstivādavinayavibhāṣā (Sapoduopinipiposha) 薩婆多毘尼毘婆沙 — count: 42
• Scroll 6 Zhu Jing Yao Ji 諸經要集 — count: 40
• Scroll 88 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 37
• Scroll 55 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 35 , has English translation , has parallel version
• Scroll 6 Dafangbian Fo Bao'en Jing 大方便佛報恩經 — count: 33
• Scroll 33 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 29 , has English translation
• Scroll 14 Notes on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya 俱舍論記 — count: 25
• Scroll 3 Quotations from Chan Master Yunmen Kuangzhen 雲門匡真禪師廣錄 — count: 24
• Scroll 4 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 24

Collocations

• 斋法 (齋法) 是為十四日齋法 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 4 — count: 38
• 受斋 (受齋) 於十五日月盛圓滿受齋之晨 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 2 — count: 34
• 日斋 (日齋) 月八日齋 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 20 — count: 23
• 八支斋 (八支齋) 三者聖八支齋 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 55 — count: 20
• 作斋 (作齋) 作齋 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 4 — count: 14
• 八斋 (八齋) 八齋十善 — Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經, Scroll 8 — count: 13
• 法斋 (法齋) 奉持法齋 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 10
• 八戒斋 (八戒齋) 持八戒齋一日一夜不失者 — Youpiyiduoshejia Jing (Visākhā) 優陂夷墮舍迦經, Scroll 1 — count: 9
• 奉斋 (奉齋) 奉齋守戒已 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 9
• 入斋 (入齋) 却入齋室 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 51 — count: 9