迦楼羅

Japanese

Kanji in this term
迦	楼	羅
か Jinmeiyō	る Grade: S	ら Grade: S
kan’on	goon	on’yomi

Alternative spelling
迦樓羅 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit गरुड (garuḍa)

Noun

迦(か)楼(る)羅(ら) • (karura) 

1. (Buddhism) garuda; a type of guardian deity which takes the form of vast fire-breathing birds. Accounted as one of the eight legions in Mahayana Buddhism

   Synonym: 金翅鳥 (konjichō)

   Hypernym: 八部衆 (hachibushū)

   Coordinate terms: 天部, 竜, 夜叉, 乾闥婆, 阿修羅, 迦楼羅, 緊那羅, 摩睺羅伽

2. a gigaku mask in the form of a garuda head

Derived terms

• 迦楼羅炎(かるらえん) (karuraen)
• 迦楼羅法(かるらほう) (karurahō)