释义 |
Examples:Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition—Bodhi tree (sacred Buddhism and Hinduism)—Vedas (Hindu sacred writings or legends)—Sacred Heart (Christian)—Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca—Jokhang, main Buddhist temple in Lhasa, a sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism—lit. use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material—flower of north India (Datura stramonium, Sanskrit: mandara), considered sacred and grown in temples, similar belladonna—Feast of the Sacred Heart—one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight—the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism—lit. set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)—Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site— |