What does 善男信女 in Chinese mean?

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The word 善男信女 in Chinese means lay practitioners of Buddhism. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word 善男信女

lay practitioners of Buddhism

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他补充道,清真寺容纳不下所有的善男信女
He added that there were not enough mosques for all the faithful.
一项记载说,祭司和善男信女‘通常全神贯注于他们的神圣偶像之上,并把雕像视为与诸神接触的媒介。
One account states that the priests and the faithful “used to lavish attention upon their sacred images, considering the statues as intermediaries with the gods.
他补充道,清真寺容纳不下所有的善男信女
He added that there were not enough mosques for all the faithful
呼吁各地的善男信女让其精神财富成为礼物,以一种信任的交流加以分享。
Men and women of faith everywhere were called to make a gift of their spiritual wealth and to share it in a trusting exchange
她 也 不是 什麼 善男信女
She was not an innocent.
许多善男信女纷纷响应这位圣女的号召,开始守斋,并向上帝热切祈祷。
Many men and women responded to the call of this saint and began to fast and pray to God.
人们开始崇拜偶像,邪灵进入这些偶像,然后造成假象来欺骗这些善男信女们。
When men began to worship idols, these evil spirits entered the idols and created in deluded men and women a kind of false reality.
这天,四乡八镇的善男信女成群结队赶来朝拜周王菩萨,并带来各种农副产品和手工业产品进行交易。
Day, suburbs, eight in the town of temple in droves to worship Zhou Wang bodhisattva, and trading of various agricultural and sideline products and industrial products.
那时我想到纽约去,因为那里有一家印刷铺,并且离开波士顿距离最近。 这时我已经把我自己弄成是当地统治集团的眼中钉,我从州议会处理我哥哥案件时所表现的专横中,想到假如我呆下去,我很可能使自己陷于窘境;同时,由于我对宗教问题的有欠审慎的议论,善男信女们已经把我看作是可怕的异教徒和无神论者了。
I then thought of going to New York, as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was rather inclin'd to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might, if I stay'd, soon bring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist.

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