New Members jasonh Posted January 23, 2021 at 01:00 PM New Members Report Posted January 23, 2021 at 01:00 PM Need help translating 2 tattoos https://photos.app.goo.gl/x5FimBGZB6gGvGi5A https://photos.app.goo.gl/RhP49kwSJLDByeAV8 Quote
New Members jasonh Posted January 23, 2021 at 01:16 PM Author New Members Report Posted January 23, 2021 at 01:16 PM Help please, need translated Quote
Jim Posted January 23, 2021 at 06:01 PM Report Posted January 23, 2021 at 06:01 PM Looks like two names of Buddhas - Shakyamuni 釋迦牟尼 and Amitabha 阿彌陀 though the first character of Shakyamuni looks a bit off - maybe a Japanese variant? - and the third one is 尊 something like "revered one" rather than the third character of his usual transliterated name, though shortened versions are common and there is a trinity called the 三尊 that Shakyamuni is part of: http://buddhaspace.org/dict/fk/data/%E4%B8%89%E5%B0%8A.html ETA: Looks like it is the Japanese way of writing the character: https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sakyamuni 1 Quote
New Members jasonh Posted January 24, 2021 at 12:04 AM Author New Members Report Posted January 24, 2021 at 12:04 AM Thank you, that's pretty much spot on for what I was told..I got them while working at a tattoo shop in Hawaii, and had been studying Buddhism for a few years Quote
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