現げん世せ

also: げんせい · げんぜ

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Meanings

Buddhist term contrasting the present world with the afterlife or past/future existences. Usually read げんせ.

Holocene epoch; current geological epoch

Only with reading げんせい

Geological term; reading is げんせい. Also referred to as 完新世.

現げん世せに生いきるto live in this present world (as opposed to focusing on the afterlife)
仏ぶっ教きょうでは現げん世せに生いきる意い味みを問とい続つづける。
In Buddhism, people continually question the meaning of living in this present world.
現げん世せを捨すてるto renounce this world (in a religious sense)
彼かれは出しゅっ家けして現げん世せを捨すてた。
He became a monk and renounced this world.

完かん新しん世せい sense 2
完新世 is the standard geological term for the Holocene epoch, whereas 現世（げんせい）is a less common variant used in the same sense.
この世よN1sense 1
此の世 is the everyday, plain word for 'this world', while 現世 is the more formal Buddhist term for the same idea.
下げ界かい
現世 is the general term for 'this present life' or 'the present world', while 下界 is specifically the Buddhist term contrasting the human world with heaven.
現げん在ざいN3
現世 is the standard Buddhist term for “this world/this life,” while 現在 carries the same meaning only in a less common, secondary sense.

来らい世せ sense 1
来世 is the afterlife or next existence, directly contrasted with 現世, the present life.

From 現 (present, current) + 世 (world, generation). The Buddhist sense is older; the geological sense is a modern calque.