Meaning of 地蔵 in Japanese
Definition of 地蔵
- (n) Ksitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers)
Words related to 地蔵
- (n) gentle and round face
- (n) Jizo (guardian deity of children); (image of) Khitigarbha-bodhisattva
- (n) Ksitigarbha (jizo) who listens to people's complaints (statue at the Keihou Temple at Nagoya)
- (n) stone statue of Jizo
- taciturn person or someone disinterested in romance
- (n) Ksitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers)
- (n) the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)
- (n) guardian Ksitigarbha of childbirth (bodhisattva)
- (n) Ksitigarbha statue erected to help deliver miscarried and aborted fetuses to buddhahood (foetuses)
- (n) Jizo Festival (child-focused religious festival, in which Jizo statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; 23-24 August)
