Meaning
異端 (いたん, itan) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “heresy; paganism”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
彼は異端の政治家です
He is an unorthodox politician.
異端と見なす人もある。
Some regard it as heterodoxy.
年老いて子がない事自体共同体の中では異端である。
The fact that the elderly couple does not have any children, in itself, is a heterodoxy in a community.
1592年彼はヴェネツィアで異端審問の手に落ちました。
In 1592 he fell into the hands of the Inquisition at Venice.
異端という非難に関しては、ここでの証拠ははるかに弱いものである。
As for the accusations of heresy, here, the evidence is much weaker.
また、当時異端視されていた専修念仏の法然や弟子の親鸞を庇護してもいる。
Additionally, he protected Honen who advocated Senshu Nenbutsu (single-mindedly chanting Namu-amida-butsu, which means devoting oneself to Amida Buddha) and his disciple Shinran, who were regarded as heretics at that time.
同年5月29日付の手紙で、東国（関東）にて異義異端を説いた善鸞を義絶する。
Shinran declared that he would disown his son Zenran in his letter dated May 29th of that year, because Zenran preached heresy to the people in the Kanto region.
親鸞が帰京した後の東国（関東）では、様々な異義異端が取り沙汰される様になる。
After Shinran returned to the capital, various heresies and heterodox views in the eastern provinces (Kanto) came to be talked about.
最大の被害を被るのは、異端ではない人々、異端を恐れることで、精神の発達が妨げられ、理性が畏縮してしまう人々なのです。
The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped, and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.
正統か異端かは相対的で、誰もが正統と主張したい心理がある一方、「異端」には対抗者へのレッテル貼りというニュアンスを伴う。
Whether the sect is considered legitimate or heretic is relative, while both parties asserting its legitimacy and 'heretics' is a label for the opposition.