Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- Himalayas
- Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle; Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras; also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2]
- Buddhist texts; Buddhist scripture
- Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition; Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
- Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond; also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
- the earth
- center; heart; core
- roof
- to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- see 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区[Xin1 jiang1 Wei2 wu2 er3 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]
- region; area
- 过来 gùo lái: 过来 guo4 lai2: to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of过来 gùo lai: 过来 guo4 lai5: see 過來|过来[guo4 lai2]
- northern part
- plateau; CL:片[pian4]
- Middle East
- India
- river; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- mountain range; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to rise; to originate; source; derivation
- Kunlun Mountain range
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- consistently; always (in the past and now)
- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- three of a kind (poker)
- 大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- 脉 mò: 脉 mo4: see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]脉 mài: 脉 mai4: arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
- see 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3]
- see 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3]
- see 山西省[Shan1 xi1 Sheng3]
- ancient times
- to call it...; known as...
- 龙 Lóng: 龙 Long2: surname Long龙 lóng: 龙 long2: Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon; (bound form) dinosaur
- lit. one dragon; integrated chain; coordinated process
- yin and yang
- feng shui; geomancy
- dragon's vein, terrain that looks like a dragon
- in the sky; in the air
- 看 kān: 看 kan1: to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard看 kàn: 看 kan4: to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for
- topography of a mountain; features of a mountain
- to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk; to be mobile (e.g. after an illness); to visit one another; to socialize; to pay a visit (go to the toilet)
- to roll; (to do sth) in a loop; to scroll (computing); to progressively expand (economics); to rumble (of thunder)