してんのう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of してんのう – see the following entry.

[noun] 持国天 (Jikokuten, “Dhṛtarāṣṭra”), east

[noun] 増長天 (Zōjōten, “Virūḍhaka”), south

[noun] 広目天 (Kōmokuten, “Virūpākṣa”), west

[noun] 多聞天 (Tamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa”), north

[noun] (by extension) the four most superior individuals within a group or field

(This term, してんのう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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