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覚路 (かくろ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

覚かく路ろ

Meanings

1

noun

path to enlightenment

archaicBuddhism

Archaic Buddhist term for the spiritual journey or way leading to awakening. Rare in modern Japanese outside classical or religious contexts.

古ふるい経きょう典てんには、覚かく路ろを求もとめる修しゅ行ぎょう者しゃの姿すがたが描えがかれている。
Old scriptures depict practitioners seeking the path to enlightenment.

Written forms

覚路
- かくろ
  Archaic Buddhist term; the modern standard kanji form. The reading がくろ is also attested.
- がくろ
覺路
out-dated kanji form
- かくろ
  Historical kyūjitai spelling; contains an outdated kanji.
- がくろ
がくろ

Kanji

覚memorize, learn, remember
路path, route, road
覺memorize

Similar words

悟さとり
悟り is the common modern term for enlightenment itself, while 覚路 refers specifically to the path or way toward it, and is archaic.
仏ぶつ道どう
仏道 is the broader 'way of the Buddha' or Buddhist practice, still used today, whereas 覚路 is a more poetic, archaic expression for the path to enlightenment.

Etymology

Composed of 覚 (enlightenment, awakening) and 路 (path, road). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it appears in classical Buddhist texts.