Seagoon_ to Melbourne · 3 days agoDaily Discussion Thread: 😎 Friday 29 Novembermessage-squaremessage-square264fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11
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minus-squareSeagoon_OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-22 days agoearth and world are the same character/word in Mandarin 🤷♀️ ( in the old mandarin I learnt )
minus-squarejust_kittenlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoThat’s actually a reasonable explanation for this wording, could be a direct translation from the original 满地 the second character 地 can mean earth/ground/soil and can mean planet Earth (地球) when combined with a character meaning ball/sphere.
minus-squareSeagoon_OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days ago世 shi, is a very common word in sutras, I learnt it a lot
earth and world are the same character/word in Mandarin 🤷♀️
( in the old mandarin I learnt )
That’s actually a reasonable explanation for this wording, could be a direct translation from the original 满地 the second character 地 can mean earth/ground/soil and can mean planet Earth (地球) when combined with a character meaning ball/sphere.
世 shi, is a very common word in sutras, I learnt it a lot