娑婆

しゃば

Also written シャバ

Meanings

1. Noun this world; this life
2. the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.)
3. this corrupt world; present world

Kanji

• 娑 old woman. Read as シャ.
• 婆 old woman. Read as バ.

Example sentences

• 我こそは汝が父の亡靈なれ。只眞夜中の若千時のみ、閻浮にさまよふ許あれども、娑婆にて犯しゝ罪業の燒き淨めらるゝそれまでは、焦熱地獄の餓鬼の苦しみ。
  I am thy father’s spirit; doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, and, for the day, confin’d to waste in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away.

Words containing 娑婆

• 娑婆気 (しゃばけ) worldly desires or ambitions
• 娑婆ッ気 (しゃばっけ) worldly desires
• 娑婆塞ぎ (しゃばふさぎ) good-for-nothing

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