【英汉对照佛学词典】

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(1) 'Sprinkling water on the head' (abhiseka); a ceremony in esoteric Buddhism for conferring the precepts, a certain mystic teaching, etc., on a person. (2) (561-632) The name of Zhiyi's 智顗 disciple who was the second patriarch of the Tiantai sect 天台宗.