Complete Definition of "interbeing"

English

Etymology
First employed by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (b. 1926). In 1966 Thich Nhat Hanh founded the Order of Interbeing. The word "interbeing" is the combination of the English prefix "inter" and noun
"being," but it originally derives from the Vietnamese concept "Tiếp Hi�n."

Noun
interbeing

  1. religion A state of connectedness and interdependence of all phenomena.

Verb
inter-be (infin.)

Translations
trans-top|state of conectedness
Vietnamese: Tiếp Hi�n.
Literally: being in touch with, continuing (Tiếp)

realizing, making it here and now (Hi�n)

trans-mid
trans-bottom

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