Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- departure date
- to open one's eyes; to widen one's horizons
- Hubei 湖北 and Hunan 湖南 provinces
- the moon and the stars
- tinkling of gems
- to seep; to percolate
- internal organs
- far more than; not just
- Caryopteris divaricata
- raucous; clamor; unpleasantly noisy
- handwriting
- stars
- drum marking night watches; night watchman's clapper
- inversion; mistake
- head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
- tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
- pore
- paper; treatise; thesis; CL:篇[pian1]; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
- various sages; refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[ru2] represented by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3], Daoism 道[dao4] by Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3], Mohism 墨[mo4] by Mozi 墨子[Mo4 zi3], Legalism 法[fa3] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3], and numerous others
- to smell; to hear; knowledge; information
- to sit in the lotus position
- husk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
- grains in distilled liquor
- Avatamsaka sutra of the Huayan school; also called Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra, the Flower adornment sutra or the Garland sutra