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The idiom 「普渡眾生」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Living beings: refers to all living animals and humans. Buddhist term. Universally extradite all people, so that they can escape from the sea of suffering and reach the other shore.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pǔ dù zhòng shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pou2 dou6 jung3 sang1

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