だいほう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of だいほう – see the following entry.
大宝
[noun] a great treasure
[noun] (Buddhism, figurative) Mahayana Buddhist law
[noun] (Buddhism, figurative) a bodhisattva
[noun] (Buddhism, figurative) homa-mandala, a fire altar used in esoteric ritual
大宝たいほう
[proper noun] the Taihō era, 701-704
(This term, だいほう (daihō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)