| 释义 |
▪ I. Shin, n.2|ʃiːn|
[Native name.]
One of the Dardic peoples inhabiting the Gilgit agency of Kashmir; a member of this people.
1875F. Drew Jummoo & Kashmir Territories xviii. 428 The table..shows in what countries the Shīn caste is found... The Shīn occur, mixed with Yashkun, along the Indus Valley. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 598/1 The middle castes, Shin and Yashkun, form the body of the Dard people. The pure Shin looks more like a European than any high-caste Brahman of India. 1910Ibid. XII. 20/1 The dominant race is that of the Shins, whose language is universally spoken. 1913A. Neve Thirty Years in Kashmir ix. 84 My own impression is that the Rajah families were originally Shins... The Shin races (i.e., the Dards) first occupied the eastern Hindu Kush. 1938R. C. F. Schomberg Kafirs & Glaciers xii. 206 The people of Ashret are not Chitralis but Dangariks who speak Palula, a language allied to the Shina spoken at Gilgit... They are probably Shins who came from Chilas.
▪ II. Shin, n.3|ʃiːn|
[Jap., = genuine, authentic.]
The name of a major Japanese Buddhist sect which teaches salvation by faith in the Buddha Amida and emphasizes morality rather than orthodoxy. Usu. attrib. or as adj.
1877W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire (ed. 2) i. xvi. 173 The Shin sect hold a form of the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith, believing in Buddha instead of Jesus. 1904L. Hearn Japan: Attempt at Interpretation xiii. 302 Nobunaga agreed to spare the lives of the Shin priests. 1960B. Leach Potter in Japan ii. 49 Dr. Suzuki is the leading writer on both Zen and Shin Buddhism, both in English and Japanese. 1976Education & Community Relations July/Aug. 8/1 Talks by the Chief Abbot of the Nishi Hongwanji (Shin Sect) of Japan. |