Huang-mei
See also: Huangmei
English
Map including 黃梅 HUANG-MEI (HWANG-MEI) (walled) (AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From Mandarin 黃梅／黄梅 (Huángméi), Wade–Giles romanization: Huang²-mei².
Proper noun
Huang-mei
- Alternative form of Huangmei
- 1965, Trettel, Efrem, Rivers-Rice Fields-Souls, Franciscan Herald Press, LCCN 65-25842, OCLC 2186387, page 173:
- I arrived in the city of Huang-mei around eight or nine and crossed the obscure and silent city guided by large stones on the main street. Here and there I could see a light in the dark homes and on occasion a passerby broke the spell of darkness with the arabesques of his lighted and circling sticks.
- 1990, A. F. Price and Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng, Boston: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, LCCN 78-237407, OCLC 782109088, page 68:
- It must be due to my good karma in past lives that I heard about this, and that I was given ten taels for the maintenance of my mother by a man who advised me to go to Huang-mei to interview the fifth patriarch. After arrangements had been made for her, I left for Huang-mei.
- 1992, Cheng Chien Bhikshu, Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, →ISBN, LCCN 92-28980, OCLC 802904006, page 8:
- At the age of forty Tao-hsin moved to Shuang-feng Mountain in the district of Huang-mei, present-day Hupeh province. There he attracted a large following; it is said that he had five hundred students studying under him.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huang-mei.
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Translations
Huangmei — see Huangmei