てんだう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of てんだう – see the following entry.

【天道てんどう】 [noun] [from 751] laws of nature [noun] [from circa 903] the god of heaven, the god of creation the king or emperor of heaven [noun] [from 1603] the path taken through the sky by heavenly objects; (by extension) the (celestial, astronomical) heavens, the sky [noun] [from 1424] heaven, a land above the clouds [noun] [from 985] (Buddhism) the heavenly realm, the gods realm (see also Saṃsāra (Buddhism)#Realms of rebirth) [noun] [from 1500s] (astronomy) the sun (more often found with the reading tentō)

(This term, てんだう (tendau), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)