藥食 / yào shí /
Medicinal Meal
Category:
Buddhist Terminology 佛學名相
Description:
意同藥石。指禪林的晚餐。意謂服之以療饑渴。
In a Buddhist temple, dinner is called a "medicinal meal"
because the food serves as a medicine to treat hunger and thirst.
because the food serves as a medicine to treat hunger and thirst.
References:
星雲大師全集【書法類】中華文化佛教名詞 名相 The Complete Works of Venerable Master Hsing Yun: Calligraphy-Terminology
