難なん化け

noun

something difficult to teach; hard-to-convert being

Buddhist term referring to a being who is difficult to lead to enlightenment or to teach the Dharma. Rare outside Buddhist contexts.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、教きょう化けしがたい衆しゅ生じょうを「難なん化け」と呼よぶことがある。

  In Buddhism, sentient beings who are hard to convert are sometimes called 難化.