forbearance; patience under hardship
Buddhist term for enduring difficulty, insult, or persecution without anger. Often appears in sutras and traditional teachings.
Rare kanji spelling for garlic; the standard modern word is にんにく (or ニンニク). This form is mostly encountered in older texts or as ateji.
See also: にんにく
In Buddhism, a spirit of forbearance is taught as important.
In an old cookbook, '忍辱' was noted as meaning garlic.
Alpine leek
The Buddhist sense is the Sino-Japanese reading of 忍辱, “patient endurance,” used to translate the Buddhist virtue of forbearance. The garlic sense is a separate word conventionally written with the same characters for their sound.