earthenware basin; alms bowl

DEFINITIONS

  • earthenware basin
  • alms bowl
  • small earthenware plate or basin
  • a monk's alms bowl
  • Sanskrit paatra
  • variant of 缽|钵[bo1]

WORDS

墨爾 mò ěr bō see 墨爾本|墨尔本[Mo4 er3 ben3]
修會 tuō bō xiū huì mendicant religious order in Catholicism; Franciscan order
pén bō generic term for pottery
yán bō mortar (bowl for grinding with pestle)
繼承衣 jì chéng yī bō to take up sb's mantle; to follow in sb's steps
盂 bō yú alms bowl
頭 bō tóu earthen bowl (Shanghainese)
yī bō the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism); legacy; mantle
jīn bō (gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk)
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