八はっ苦く

noun

the eight kinds of suffering

A Buddhist term referring to the eight fundamental sufferings: birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, and the pains of the five skandhas. Used in religious or philosophical contexts.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、人じん生せいの苦くるしみを八はっ苦くとして分ぶん類るいする。

  In Buddhism, the sufferings of life are classified as the eight kinds of suffering.

• 四し苦く八はっ苦くという言こと葉ばは、八はっ苦くから来きている。

  The expression 四苦八苦 (shikuhakku) comes from the eight kinds of suffering.