性善 xìng shàn
xìng shàn
phrase
people are by nature good
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Scroll 10, Chapter 35 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Chan 1963, p. 275)
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- Scroll 1 Tiantai Chuan Fo Xin Yinji 天台傳佛心印記 — count: 12
- Scroll 17 Zong Jing Lu 宗鏡錄 — count: 11 , has English translation
- Scroll 5 Zhi Guan Fu Xing Chuan Hong Jue 止觀輔行傳弘決 — count: 4
- Scroll 2 Guanyin Xuan Yi Ji 觀音玄義記 — count: 4
- Scroll 35 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 3 , has English translation
- Scroll 1 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 3
- Scroll 1 The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 六祖大師法寶壇經 — count: 3 , has English translation
- Scroll 1 Guanyin Xuan Yi 觀音玄義 — count: 3
- Scroll 15 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 3
- Scroll 9 Da Ban Niepan Jing Yi Ji 大般涅槃經義記 — count: 2
Collocations
- 性善恶 (性善惡) 本具三千為性善惡 — Guanyin Xuan Yi Ji 觀音玄義記, Scroll 2 — count: 10
- 性善性 (性善性) 皆本具故得名為性善性惡 — Guanyin Xuan Yi Ji 觀音玄義記, Scroll 2 — count: 8
- 言性善 (言性善) 秦言性善 — Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論, Scroll 13 — count: 6
- 性善根 (性善根) 與一切佛同一性善根 — Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經, Scroll 20 — count: 5
- 住舍性善 (住舍性善) 即恒住捨性善增語是菩薩摩訶薩不 — The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 大般若波羅蜜多經, Scroll 22 — count: 4
- 约性善 (約性善) 若約性善亦可 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔, Scroll 53 — count: 4
- 色性善 (色性善) 已說色性善法 — Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論, Scroll 54 — count: 4
- 性善持戒 (性善持戒) 性善持戒煩惱不雜故 — Daśabhūmikasūtraśāstra (Treatise on the Scripture of the Ten Stages) 十地經論, Scroll 4 — count: 3
- 法界性善 (法界性善) 正等正覺於法界性善覺了故 — Bodhisattva Teachings (Dasheng Pusa Cang Zhengfa Jing) 佛說大乘菩薩藏正法經, Scroll 9 — count: 3
- 性善觉 (性善覺) 正等正覺於法界性善覺了故 — Bodhisattva Teachings (Dasheng Pusa Cang Zhengfa Jing) 佛說大乘菩薩藏正法經, Scroll 9 — count: 3