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寒苦鳥
かんくちょうかんくどりかんくとり
1. [n] {Buddhism}
▶ cold-suffering bird
▶ kankuchō
▶ [expl] imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes
2. [n] [id,derog] {Buddhism}
▶ (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism
▶ person unlikely to reach satori



History:
8. A 2020-04-28 03:53:06  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2020-04-27 07:27:58  Opencooper
  Diff:
@@ -20 +20 @@
-<gloss>kankucho</gloss>
+<gloss>kankuchō</gloss>
6. A 2018-05-27 00:52:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -21 +21 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning 
comes</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes</gloss>
5. A* 2018-05-26 05:06:02  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
http://www.sgi.org/ru/sgi-president/writings-by-sgi-president-ikeda/the-birds-of-the-snow-mountains.html
  Comments:
Quite a bit of hits for this in English, probably mostly because of Soka Gakkai and similar Buddhist groups
  Diff:
@@ -19 +19,3 @@
-<gloss>imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes</gloss>
+<gloss>cold-suffering bird</gloss>
+<gloss>kankucho</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning 
comes</gloss>
4. A* 2018-05-23 08:14:40  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daij
  Comments:
Previous rendition just said "used as a Buddhist metaphor", but no hint to what the metaphor was.
  Diff:
@@ -19 +19,9 @@
-<gloss>imaginary bird living in the Indian Himalayas (used as a Buddhist metaphor)</gloss>
+<gloss>imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&Buddh;</field>
+<misc>&id;</misc>
+<misc>&derog;</misc>
+<gloss>(lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism</gloss>
+<gloss>person unlikely to reach satori</gloss>
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