Help with chinese characters

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This isn't greatly dharma related, but this is the best place I can think of to ask this. When I took refuge, I was given the dharma name Chang Yuan.
This is a picture of the card from that day, if someone could get these chinese characters to me, that would be great.
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ChangYuan wrote:This isn't greatly dharma related, but this is the best place I can think of to ask this. When I took refuge, I was given the dharma name Chang Yuan.
This is a picture of the card from that day, if someone could get these chinese characters to me, that would be great.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you just want to have the characters in digital form or something, so you can then use them to look up a dictionary??

= chang2 = always, constant, permanent, enduring ...
= yuan2 = condition, relation(ship), connection, object of mind, reason, ...
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Well, I would like to learn to be able to write them. So I'm not really sure if the digital version helps, or if there is a way to look up how to properly write it. Guess I should have stated that in the original request, sorry.
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Copy and paste the characters (one at a time) into this:

http://www.cchar.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thanks for that site, perfect.
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Huseng wrote:Copy and paste the characters (one at a time) into this:

http://www.cchar.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That's a good one. Sometime last year I found a nice site with displayed character stroke order in animation. Has anyone ever seen such a site? I cannot find it again. Shoulda bookmarked it
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http://cojak.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; has that feature, although not for every character.
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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