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Ta-pien-t'sai-t'ien nu

Chinese translation: 大辩才天女

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English term or phrase:	Ta-pien-t'sai-t'ien nu
Chinese translation:	大辩才天女
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10:43 Sep 26, 2004

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English term or phrase: Ta-pien-t'sai-t'ien nu

one of Chinese deities
TIA

Shang KudoZ activity Questions: 1158 (3 open) (17 without valid answers) (46 closed without grading) Answers: 3224 China
Local time: 11:40

Sarasvatī (goddess of Speech) ?

Explanation:
Could be the goddess of Speech, sometimes male, sometime female (大辯才天 or 大辯才女)
pinyin is dabiancai tiannü

See this page:
http://www.acmuller.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?59.xml id('b5927-8faf-5929')

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Xiaren
France
Local time: 04:40

Grading comment

thanks a lot!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +1

辩才天女萨拉斯瓦蒂(Sarasvati)

lai an

Sarasvatī (goddess of Speech) ?

Xiaren

Answers

5 hrs confidence:

ta-pien-t'sai-t'ien nu (dabiancai tiannü)

Sarasvatī (goddess of Speech) ?

Xiaren
France
Local time: 04:40
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French
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

thanks a lot!

18 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

ta-pien-t'sai-t'ien nu 辩才天女萨拉斯瓦蒂(Sarasvati)

Explanation:
印度蜜月专题
三大主神之——梵天(Brahma) ... 然后他开始创造世界万物。在印度教造像中，
梵天通常是婆罗门祭司装束，四面四臂，手持吠陀，坐在莲花上或乘骑天鹅。
梵天居住在迷卢山，他创造的辩才天女萨拉斯瓦蒂(Sarasvati)是他的神妃 ...
www.himalayatours.com.cn/ india/ztzl/honeymoon/3dzs/3sbrahma.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

藏学文库——喜玛拉雅的人与神
... 这位乐神正在弹奏一个琵琶，它与现今西藏依然使用的琵琶在形状上更为接近。
通过深入的研究，我们发现在佛教天国的大部分天层里都有琵琶。例如：
印度女神婆罗室伐底（意为辩才天女）被引入西藏的神殿，叫做妙音佛母 ...
www.tibet-web.com/zangxue/03mjmy/renyushen/01.htm - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

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Just more references to follow on from Xiaren, but where is \'大\'辩才天女\'的大\'?

龚天民新文集
... Brahma，是宇宙的创造者，妻子是SaraSVati；(二)毘瑟笯神ViShnu，是太阳的神格化，
有二十三种化身；(三)湿婆神SiVa，此神最受大众敬拜，能给人带来繁荣。但奇怪的是，
象征此神的即是一条男性的生殖器，叫做Linga，在印度各寺院 ...
www.jonahome.org/files/tianmin/06.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

lai an
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