He devoted himself to the task of promoting public welfare quite uninfluenced by self‐interest.
彼は欲得を離れて公共の福祉増進のために努力した. - 研究社 新和英中辞典
The woman left the town, took refuge with an independent rajah, and there carried out her self-devoted purpose."
すると未亡人はボンベイから出ていって、とある酋長が支配する地域へ行き、望みどおり焼かれてしまったんです。」 - JULES VERNE『80日間世界一周』
He is understood to have accumulated knowledge by self-education such as by visiting places throughout Japan to see directly wind-up dolls and devoted himself to restore wind-up dolls which had been hoarded up in various places; however, he sometimes 'repaired' wind-up dolls to change the original model, which, it is said, has made him not necessarily highly evaluated by wind-up doll researchers.
全国のからくり人形を直接見て回るなど独学で知識を積み上げ、各地で死蔵されていたからくりの復元に尽したとされるが、その一方で元々と違う形で「修復」することがあり、からくりの研究家などからの評価は高くないとも言われる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス
It describes various people's lives very vividly including the tales about a high priest who did not desire fame and chose seclusion (such as the opening story on Genpin Sozu), about a high-ranking priest who failed to reach Ojo (birth in the Pure Land) due to hesitation, and about the common people in this world who devoted themselves to arts and reached Muga no Kyochi (the state of no-self); the writer also wrote his comments in each tales.
盛名を良しとせず隠遁の道を選んだ高僧(冒頭の玄賓僧都の話など)をはじめ、心に迷いを生じたため往生し損なった聖、反対に俗世にありながら芸道に打ち込んで無我の境地に辿り着いた人々の生き様をまざまざと描き、編者の感想を加えている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス