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五逆
ごぎゃく
1. [n] {Buddhism}
▶ five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)
2. [n] [hist]
▶ crime of killing one's master, father, grandfather, mother, or grandmother



History:
2. A 2021-01-26 06:42:28  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2021-01-26 03:39:36  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijs nipp nikk
  Comments:
don't really have any proper basis for [hist] on the 2nd sense except 逆罪 in Brit explicitly mentioning the Edo period and daijs 
using "主君" for master

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