微尘 (微塵) wēichén

1. wēichén noun dust; a minute particle
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '微塵'; Guoyu '微塵', p. 399)
2. wēichén noun fine dust
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Fo Guang Shan
   Notes: (Glossary of Humanistic Buddhism)
3. wēichén noun an atom
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: paramāṇu, or: aṇu, Tibetan: rdul phra mo; the most minute particle of matter (FGDB '微塵'; Mahāvyutpatti 'aṇuḥ'; MW 'paramāṇu'; SH '微塵', p. 399)

Contained in

• 三千大千世界所有微尘(三千大千世界所有微塵) all the particles in a billion world system
• 微尘劫(微塵劫) kalpas as many as fine dust
• 微尘为因(微塵為因) originate just from atoms
• 微尘数(微塵數) as numerous as atoms
• 一微尘(一微塵) a particle of dust
• 是名微尘(是名微塵) In that sense ‘a particle of dust’ is used.
• 五微尘(五微塵) five rudimentary elements
• 如来说非微尘(如來說非微塵) is said to be not a particle by the Tathagata
• 极微尘(極微塵) atom; particle; paramāṇu

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 10 Jingang Xian Lun 金剛仙論 — count: 97
• Scroll 60 Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經 — count: 50
• Scroll 17 Sutra on the Names of the Buddhas (Fo Shuo Fo Ming Jing) 佛說佛名經 — count: 46
• Scroll 1 Viṁśatikāvṛtti (Weishi Lun) 唯識論 — count: 46
• Scroll 3 Jingang Bore Lun Huishi 金剛般若論會釋 — count: 46
• Scroll 7 Sutra on the Names of the Buddhas (Fo Shuo Fo Ming Jing) 佛說佛名經 — count: 45
• Scroll 1 Niyatāniyatagatimudrāvatārasūtra (Bubi Ding Dingzhi Ru Yin Jing) 不必定入定入印經 — count: 38
• Scroll 5 Śraddhābāladhānāavatāramudrāsūtra (Xin Li Ru Yin Famen Jing) 信力入印法門經 — count: 33
• Scroll 44 Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經 — count: 32
• Scroll 2 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 32

Collocations

• 微尘等 (微塵等) 一一方面各百千億諸佛世界微塵等數身 — Dafangbian Fo Bao'en Jing 大方便佛報恩經, Scroll 1 — count: 186
• 佛刹微尘 (佛剎微塵) 一切佛剎微塵等 — Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經, Scroll 3 — count: 91
• 世界微尘 (世界微塵) 一一方面各百千億諸佛世界微塵等數身 — Dafangbian Fo Bao'en Jing 大方便佛報恩經, Scroll 1 — count: 38
• 微尘中 (微塵中) 一一微塵中 — Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經, Scroll 3 — count: 29
• 微尘众 (微塵眾) 是微塵眾寧為多不 — Diamond Sūtra 金剛般若波羅蜜經, Chinese text from the Taisho — count: 12
• 阎浮提微尘 (閻浮提微塵) 如一閻浮提微塵 — The Lotus Sutra (Miaofa Lianhua Jing) 妙法蓮華經, Scroll 6 — count: 11
• 刹微尘 (剎微塵) 令此十方如一佛剎微塵等世界地六種動 — Bei Hua Jing (Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra) 悲華經, Scroll 8 — count: 10
• 世界海微尘 (世界海微塵) 諸世界海有世界海微塵等莊嚴 — Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經, Scroll 3 — count: 9
• 三千大千世界微尘 (三千大千世界微塵) 復現三千大千世界微塵等身 — Dafangbian Fo Bao'en Jing 大方便佛報恩經, Scroll 1 — count: 9
• 须弥山微尘 (須彌山微塵) 當知有須彌山微塵等風輪 — Avataṃsakasūtra (Flower Garland Sūtra) 大方廣佛華嚴經, Scroll 3 — count: 8