Compare the Chinese expression hai liang (sea measure) meaning capacious or broad minded.

Broad minded faculties invite intelligent criticism from the graduate body, and they usually get it.

Anyhow, man-like, I am broad minded enough to proclaim that it doesn't very much matter.

He was broad minded, cultivated, plastic within reasonable limits, and not corroded with a venom of partisan politics.

The various questions of law had to be adjusted in a broad minded manner, to suit the particular need of the cotton market.