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本尊

běn zūn

2-character word

What 本尊 means

1. Buddhismyidam (one's chosen meditational deity)
2. the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar
3. (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, {分身|fēn shēn})
4. (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article
5. the real McCoy
6. the man himself
7. the woman herself
8. the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)

The characters in 本尊

• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this
• 尊zūnsenior; of a senior generation; to honor