Chinese edit

to go back; to return real; true; genuine
trad. (歸真/歸眞) /
simp. (归真)

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歸真

  1. (literary) to return to the original state
  2. (Buddhism, Islam, of a person) to die

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The second sense is borrowed by Islam from the Buddhist concept, but is often interpreted as short for 回歸真主回归真主 (huíguī zhēnzhǔ, “back to Allah”) among Muslims.

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