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Bianhua
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| Traditional Chinese | 變化 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 变化 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | transformation; metamorphosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 변화 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 変化 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | へんか | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bianhua, meaning 'transformation' or 'metamorphosis', was a keyword developed in both Daoism and Chinese Buddhism. Daoists used bianhua describing things transforming from one type to another, such as from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Buddhist translators used bianhua for Sanskrit nirmāṇa 'manifest through transformations', such as the nirmāṇa-kaya 'transformation body' of a Buddha's reincarnations.
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