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Simple Dictionary Definition

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    fa3
fa
 hou / ho
    ほう

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Dharma / The Law
law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])
(n,n-suf) (1) law; act; principle; (n,n-suf) (2) method; (n,n-suf) (3) {gramm} mood; (n,n-suf) (4) {Buddh} dharma; law; (female given name) Minori
Dharma, 達磨; 曇無 (or 曇摩); 達摩 (or 達謨) Law, truth, religion, thing, anything Buddhist. Dharma is 'that which is held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice, custom'; 'duty'; 'right'; 'proper'; 'morality'; 'character'. M. W. It is used in the sense of 一切 all things, or anything small or great, visible or invisible, real or unreal, affairs, truth, principle, method, concrete things, abstract ideas, etc. Dharma is described as that which has entity and bears its own attributes. It connotes Buddhism as the perfect religion; it also has the second place in the triratna 佛法僧, and in the sense of 法身 dharmakāya it approaches the Western idea of 'spiritual'. It is also one of the six media of sensation, i. e. the thing or object in relation to mind, v. 六塵.

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kòng
    kong4
k`ung
    kung
 kuu / ku
    くう
to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time
(1) empty air; sky; (2) {Buddh} shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; (3) (abbreviation) (See 空軍) air force; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (noun or adjectival noun) (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements); (can be adjective with の) (6) {math} empty (e.g. set); (female given name) Ron
śūnya, empty, void, hollow, vacant, nonexistent. śūnyatā, 舜若多, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, perhaps spirituality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, the seeming 假 being unreal. The doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. There are classifications into 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, and 18 categories. The doctrine is that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution. From this doctrine the Yogācārya school developed the idea of the permanent reality, which is Essence of Mind, the unknowable noumenon behind all phenomena, the entity void of ideas and phenomena, neither matter nor mind, but the root of both.

三諦


三谛

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sān dì
    san1 di4
san ti
 santai; sandai
    さんたい; さんだい

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The Three Truths
{Buddh} threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two) (in Tendai)
The three dogmas. The "middle" school of Tiantai says 卽空, 卽假. 卽中 i.e. 就是空, 假, 中; (a) by 空śūnya is meant that things causally produced are intheir essential nature unreal (or immaterial) 實空無; (b) 假, though thingsare unreal in their essential nature their derived forms are real; (c) 中;but both are one, being of the one 如 reality. These three dogmas arefounded on a verse of Nāgārjuna's— 因緣所生法, 我說卽是空 亦爲是假名, 亦是中道義 "All causally produced phenomena, I say, areunreal, Are but a passing name, and indicate the 'mean'." There are otherexplanations— the 圓教 interprets the 空 and 假 as 中; the 別教 makes 中 independent. 空 is the all, i.e. the totality of all things, and is spokenof as the 眞 or 實 true, or real; 假 is the differentiation of all thingsand is spoken of as 俗 common, i.e. things as commonly named; 中 is theconnecting idea which makes a unity of both, e.g. "all are but parts of onestupendous whole." The 中 makes all and the all into one whole, unifying thewhole and its parts. 空 may be taken as the immaterial, the undifferentiatedall, the sum of existences, by some as the tathāgatagarbha 如來藏; 假as theunreal, or impermanent, the material or transient form, the temporal thatcan be named, the relative or discrete; 中 as the unifier, which places eachin the other and all in all. The "shallower" 山外 school associated 空 and 中 with the noumenal universe as opposed to the phenomenal and illusoryexistence represented by 假. The "profounder" 山内 school teaches that allthree are aspects of the same.

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    ji2
chi
unreal

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jià
    jia4
chia
 ke
vacation
To borrow, pretend, assume, suppose; unreal, false, fallacious. In Buddhism it means empirical; nothing is real and permanent, all is temporal and merely phenomenal, fallacious, and unreal; hence the term is used in the sense of empirical, phenomenal, temporal, relative, unreal, seeming, fallacious, etc. The three fundamental propositions or 三諦 are 空假中 the void, or noumenon; the empirical, or phenomenal; and the mean.


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    xu1
hsü
 kyo
emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain
śūnya. Empty, vacant; unreal, unsubstantial, untrue; space; humble; in vain.

三假

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sān jiǎ
    san1 jia3
san chia
 sanke
prajñāpti. The word 假 q.v. in Buddhist terminology means that everything is merely phenomenal, and consists of derived elements; nothing therefore has real existeme, but all is empty and unreal, 虛妄不實. The three 假 are 法 things, 受 sensations, and 名 names.

三智

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sān zhì
    san1 zhi4
san chih
 michi
    みち
(female given name) Michi
The three kinds of wisdom: (1) (a) 一切智 śrāvaka and pratyeka-buddha knowledge that all the dharma or laws are 空 void and unreal; (b) 道種智 bodhisattva-knowledge. of all things in their proper discrimination; (c) 一切種智 Buddha-knowledge, or perfect knowledge of all things in their every aspect and relationship past, present, and future. Tiantai associates the above with 室, 候, 中. (2) (a) 世間智 earthly or ordinary wisdom; (b) 出世間智 supra-mundane, or spiritual (śrāvaka and pratyeka-buddha) wisdom; (c) 出世間上上智 supreme wisdom of bodhisattvas and Buddhas. v. 智度論 27, 止觀 3, and 概伽經 3. Cf. — 心三智.

三觀


三观

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sān guān
    san1 guan1
san kuan
 sangan
The three studies, meditations, or insights. The most general group is that of Tiantai: (a) 空觀 study of all as void, or immaterial; (b) 假觀 of all as unreal, transient, or temporal; (c) 中觀 as the via media inclusive of both. The Huayan group is 眞空觀, 理事無礙觀 and 周遍含容觀, see 華嚴經:法界觀. The 南山 group is 性空觀, 相空觀, and 唯識觀. The 慈恩 group is 有觀, 空觀 and 中觀.

不實


不实

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bù shí
    bu4 shi2
pu shih
 fujitsu
untruthful; untrue
unreal

二空

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èr kōng
    er4 kong1
erh k`ung
    erh kung
 nikū
The two voids, unrealities, or immaterialities; v. 空. There are several antitheses: (1) (a) 人空; 我空 The non-reality of the atman, the soul, the person; (6) 法空 the non-reality of things. (2) (a) 性空 The Tiantai division that nothing has a nature of its own; (b) 相空 therefore its form is unreal, i.e. forms are temporary names. (3) (a) 但空 Tiantai says the 藏 and 通 know only the 空; (b) 不但空 the 別 and 圓 have 空, 假, and 中 q.v. (4) (a) 如實空 The division of the 起信論 that the 眞如 is devoid of all impurity; (b) 如實不空 and full of all merit, or achievement.

信忍

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xìn rěn
    xin4 ren3
hsin jen
 shinnin
Faith-patience, faith-endurance: (1) To abide patiently in the faith and repeat the name of Amitābha. (2) To believe in the Truth and attain the nature of patient faith. (3) According to Tiantai the 別教 meaning is the unperturbed faith of the Bodhisattva (that all dharma is unreal).

倶空

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jù kōng
    ju4 kong1
chü k`ung
    chü kung
 kukū
Both or all empty, or unreal, i.e. both ego and things have no reality.

假名

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jiǎ míng
    jia3 ming2
chia ming
 karina
    かりな
false name; pseudonym; alias; pen name; the Japanese kana scripts; hiragana 平假名[ping2 jia3 ming2] and katakana 片假名[pian4 jia3 ming2]
(out-dated kanji) kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana); (surname) Karina
Unreal names, i. e. nothing has a name of itself, for all names are mere human appellations.

假實


假实

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jiǎ shí
    jia3 shi2
chia shih
 ke jitsu
False and true, unreal and real, empirical and real, etc.

兎角

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tù jiǎo
    tu4 jiao3
t`u chiao
    tu chiao
 tokaku
    とかく
(adv,adj-no,n,vs) (1) (kana only) (doing) various things; (doing) this and that; (2) (kana only) being apt to; being prone to; tending to become; (3) (kana only) somehow or other; anyhow; anyway; (4) (Buddhist term) rabbit horns (used as a metaphor for things that do not exist)
śaśa-viṣāṇa; śaśa-śṛṅga; a rabbit's horns, i.e. the non-existent; all phenomena are as unreal as a rabbit's horns.

八迷

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bā mí
    ba1 mi2
pa mi
 hachimei
The eight misleading terms, which form the basis of the logic of the 中論, i.e. 生 birth, 滅 death, 去 past, 來 future, 一 identity, 異 difference, 斷 annihilation, 常 perpetuity (or eternity). The 三論宗 regards these as unreal; v. 八不中道.

六麤


六粗

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liù cū
    liu4 cu1
liu ts`u
    liu tsu
 rokuso
The six 'coarser' stages arising from the 三細 or three finer stages which in turn are produced by original 無明, the unenlightened condition of ignorance; v. Awakening of Faith 起信論. They are the states of (1) 智相 knowledge or consciousness of like and dislike arising from mental conditions; (2) 相續相 consciousness of pain and pleasure resulting from the first, causing continuous responsive memory; (3) 執取相 attachment or clinging, arising from the last; (4) 計名字相 assigning names according to the seeming and unreal with fixation of ideas); (5) 起業 the consequent activity with all the variety of deeds; (6) 業繋苦相 the suffering resulting from being tied to deeds and their karma consequences.

十宗

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shí zōng
    shi2 zong1
shih tsung
 jūshū
The ten schools of Chinese Buddhism: I. The (1) 律宗 Vinaya-discipline, or 南山|; (2) 倶舍 Kośa, Abhidharma, or Reality (Sarvāstivādin) 有宗; (3) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect founded on this śāstra by Harivarman; (4) 三論宗 Mādhyamika or 性空宗; (5) 法華宗 Lotus, "Law-flower" or Tiantai 天台宗; (6) 華嚴Huayan or法性 or賢首宗; ( 7) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana or 慈恩宗 founded on the唯識論 (8) 心宗 Ch'an or Zen, mind-only or intuitive, v. 禪宗 ; (9) 眞言宗 (Jap. Shingon) or esoteric 密宗 ; (10) 蓮宗 Amitābha-lotus or Pure Land (Jap. Jōdo) 淨士宗. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th are found in Japan rather than in China, where they have ceased to be of importance. II. The Hua-yen has also ten divisions into ten schools of thought: (1) 我法倶有 the reality of self (or soul) and things, e.g. mind and matter; (2) 法有我無 the reality of things but not of soul; (3) 法無去來 things have neither creation nor destruction; (4) 現通假實 present things are both apparent and real; (5) 俗妄眞實 common or phenomenal ideas are wrong, fundamental reality is the only truth; (6) things are merely names; (7) all things are unreal 空; (8) the bhūtatathatā is not unreal; (9) phenomena and their perception are to be got rid of; (10) the perfect, all-inclusive, and complete teaching of the One Vehicle. III. There are two old Japanese divisions: 大乘律宗, 倶舎宗 , 成實 宗 , 法和宗 , 三論宗 , 天台宗 , 華嚴宗 , 眞言宗 , 小乘律宗 , and 淨土宗 ; the second list adds 禪宗 and omits 大乘律宗. They are the Ritsu, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Hossō, Sanron, Tendai, Kegon, Shingon, (Hīnayāna) Ritsu, and Jōdo; the addition being Zen.

十門


十门

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shí mén
    shi2 men2
shih men
 jūmon
The ten "doors" or connections between事 and 理; 事 is defined as 現象 form and 理 as 本體 substance; the common illustration of wave and water indicates the idea thus expressed. The 理事無礎十門 means that in ten ways form and substance are not separate, unconnected entities. (1) li the substance is always present with shih the phenomena; (2) shih is always present with li; (3) shih depends on li for its existence; (4) the shih can reveal the li; (5) the shih (mere form, which is unreal) can disappear in the li;(6) the shih can conceal the li; (7) the true li is the shih; (8) the shih is li; (9) the true li (or reality) is not the shih; (10) the shih is not the (whole) li; v. 華嚴大疏 2. 周遍含容觀十門 The fifth of the five 觀 meditations of the 華嚴宗, i.e. on li and shih, e.g. (1) the li is as the shih; (2) the shih is as the li; 理如事, 事如理 and so on. The 止觀十門 in the 宗鏡録35, also deals with li and shih chiefly for purposes of meditation. Another group, the 華嚴釋經十門, treats of the Canon and the schools.

名假

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míng jiǎ
    ming2 jia3
ming chia
 myōke
Name unreal; one of the 三假; names are not in themselves realities.

名相

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míng xiàng
    ming2 xiang4
ming hsiang
 myōsō
famous prime minister (in ancient China); names and appearances (Buddhism)
Name and appearance; everything has a name, e. g. sound, or has appearance, i. e. the visible, v. 名色; both are unreal and give rise to delusion. The name under which Subhūti will be reborn as Buddha.

四門


四门

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sì mén
    si4 men2
ssu men
 yotsukado
    よつかど
(surname) Yotsukado
The four doors, schools of thought, or theories: 有 is the phenomenal world real, or 空 unreal, or both, or neither ? According to the Tiantai school each of the four schools 四教 in discussing these four questions emphasizes one of them, i. e. 三藏教 that it is real 通教 unreal, 別通 both, 圓通 neither; v. 有 and 空, and each of the four schools. In esoteric symbolism the 四門 are four stages of initiation, development, enlightenment, and nirvana, and are associated with E., S., W., and N.; with the four seasons; with warmth, heat, coolness and cold, etc.

執情


执情

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zhí qíng
    zhi2 qing2
chih ch`ing
    chih ching
 shūjō
The foolish passion of clinging to the unreal.

妄塵


妄尘

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wàng chén
    wang4 chen2
wang ch`en
    wang chen
 mōjin
the unreal and unclean world.

實空


实空

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shí kōng
    shi2 kong1
shih k`ung
    shih kung
 jikkū
Absolute śūnya, or vacuity; all things being produced by cause and environment are unreal.

幻心

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huàn xīn
    huan4 xin1
huan hsin
 genshin
The illusion mind, or mind is unreal.

慧眼

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huì yǎn
    hui4 yan3
hui yen
 keigan / kegan
    けいがん
an all-seeing mind; mental perception; insight; acumen
(noun or adjectival noun) keen eye; quick eye; sharp eye; keen insight; keen perception
The wisdom-eye that sees all things as unreal.

戲論


戏论

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xì lùn
    xi4 lun4
hsi lun
 keron
prapañca. Sophistry; meaningless argument; frivolous or unreal discourse.

於諦


于谛

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yú dì
    yu2 di4
yü ti
 otai
All Buddha's teaching is 'based upon the dogmas' that all things are unreal, and that the world is illusion; a 三論 phrase.

有解

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yǒu jiě
    you3 jie3
yu chieh
 uge
(of a problem, equation etc) to have a solution; to be solvable
The intp. of things as real, or material, opposite of 無解 the intp. of them as unreal, or immaterial.

水月

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shuǐ yuè
    shui3 yue4
shui yüeh
 suigetsu
    すいげつ
(1) water and moon; (2) the Moon reflected on the water; (3) (See 水落・1) pit of the stomach; solar plexus; (female given name) Mizuki
udakacandra; jalacandra; the moon reflected in the water, i. e. all is illusory and unreal.

浮想

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fú xiǎng
    fu2 xiang3
fu hsiang
 fusō
passing thought; an idea that comes into one's head; recollection
Passing thoughts, unreal fancies.

眞妄

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zhēn wàng
    zhen1 wang4
chen wang
 shinmō
True and false, real and unreal. (1) That which has its rise in Buddha-truth, meditation, and wisdom is true; that which arises from the influences of unenlightenment is untrue. (2) The essential bhūtatathatā as the real, phenomena as the unreal.

空忍

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kōng rěn
    kong1 ren3
k`ung jen
    kung jen
 kūnin
Patience attained by regarding suffering as unreal; one of the 十忍.

空教

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kōng jiào
    kong1 jiao4
k`ung chiao
    kung chiao
 kuukyou / kukyo
    くうきょう
(given name) Kuukyō
The teaching that all is unreal. The 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa School divided Buddha's teaching into three periods: (1) the Hīnayāna period, teaching that 法有 things are real; (2) the 般若 prajñā period, that 法 空things are unreal; (3) the Huayan and Lotus period of the middle or transcendental doctrine 中道教.

空有

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kōng yǒu
    kong1 you3
k`ung yu
    kung yu
 kūu
Unreal and real, non-existent and existent, abstract and concrete, negative and positive.

空法

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kōng fǎ
    kong1 fa3
k`ung fa
    kung fa
 kūhō
(1) To regard everything as unreal, i.e. the ego, things, the dynamic, the static. (2) The nirvana of Hīnayāna.

空空

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kōng kōng
    kong1 kong1
k`ung k`ung
    kung kung
 kūkū
    くうくう
empty; vacuous; nothing; vacant; in vain; all for nothing; air-to-air (missile)
(noun or adjectival noun) empty; vacant; void
Unreality of unreality. When all has been regarded as illusion, or unreal, the abstract idea of unreality itself must be destroyed.

空門


空门

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kōng mén
    kong1 men2
k`ung men
    kung men
 sorakado
    そらかど
(surname) Sorakado
(1) The teaching which regards everything as unreal, or immaterial. (2) The school of unreality, one of the four divisions made by Tiantai (3) The teaching of immateriality, the door to nirvana, a general name for Buddhism; hence空門子 are Buddhist monks.

空點


空点

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kōng diǎn
    kong1 dian3
k`ung tien
    kung tien
 kūten
The dot over the ṃ or ṅ in Sanskrit, symbolizing that all things are empty or unreal; used by the Shingon sect with various meanings.

等觀


等观

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děng guān
    deng3 guan1
teng kuan
 tōkan
The beholding of all things as equal, e.g. as 空 unreal, or immaterial; or of all beings without distinction, as one beholds one's child i.e. without respect of persons.

舜若

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shùn ruò
    shun4 ruo4
shun jo
 shunnya
śūnya, empty, unreal, incorporeal, immaterial, 空 q.v.

虛僞


虚伪

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xū wěi
    xu1 wei3
hsü wei
 kogi
Unreal, deceptive.

虛妄


虚妄

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xū wàng
    xu1 wang4
hsü wang
 komō
fabricated
vitatha. Unreal and false, baseless; abhūta, non-existent.

虛無


虚无

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xū wú
    xu1 wu2
hsü wu
 komu
nothingness
Empty, non-existent, unreal, incorporeal, immaterial.

觀空


观空

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guān kōng
    guan1 kong1
kuan k`ung
    kuan kung
 kankū
To regard all things as unreal, or as having no fundamental reality.

識幻


识幻

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shì huàn
    shi4 huan4
shih huan
 shikigen
The illusion of perception, or mind.

還門


还门

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huán mén
    huan2 men2
huan men
 genmon
One of the six 妙門, i.e. to realize by introspection that the thinker, or introspecting agent, is unreal.

鳥迹


鸟迹

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niǎo jī
    niao3 ji1
niao chi
The tracks left in the air by a flying bird, unreal.

三三昧

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sān sān mèi
    san1 san1 mei4
san san mei
 san zanmai
(三三昧地) The three samādhis, or the samādhi on three subjects; 三三摩 (三三摩地); 三定, 三等持; 三空; 三治; 三解脫門; 三重三昧; 三重等持. There are two forms of such meditation, that of 有漏 reincarnational, or temporal, called 三三昧; and that of 無 漏 liberation, or nirvāṇa, called 三解脫. The three subjects and objects of the meditation are (1) 空 to empty the mind of the ideas of me and mine and suffering, which are unreal; (2) 無相to get rid of the idea of form, or externals, i.e. the 十相 which are the five senses, and male and female, and the three 有; (3) 無願 to get rid of all wish or desire, also termed無作 and 無起. A more advanced meditation is called the Double Three Samādhi 重三三昧 in which each term is doubled 空空, 無相無相, 無願無願. The esoteric sect has also a group of its own.

三世心

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sān shì xīn
    san1 shi4 xin1
san shih hsin
 sanze shin
Mind, or thought, past, present or future, is momentary, always moving, unreal and cannot be laid hold of.

三時教


三时教

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sān shí jiào
    san1 shi2 jiao4
san shih chiao
 sanji kyō
(三時教判) The three periods and characteristics of Buddha's teaching, as defined by the Dharmalakṣana school 法相宗. They are: (1) 有, when he taught the 實有 reality of the skandhas and elements, but denied the common belief in 實我 real personality or a permanent soul; this period is represented by the four 阿含經 āgamas and other Hīnayāna sūtras. (2) 空 Śūnya, when he negatived the idea of 實法 the reality of things and advocated that all was 空 unreal; the period of the 般若經 prajñā sūtras. (3) 中 Madhyama, the mean, that mind or spirit is real, while things are unreal; the period of this school's specific sūtra the 解深密經, also the 法華 and later sūtras. In the two earlier periods he is said to have 方便 adapted his teaching to the development of his hearers; in the third to have delivered his complete and perfect doctrine. Another division by the 空宗 is (1) as above; (2) the early period of the Mahāyāna represented, by the 深密經; (3) the higher Mahāyāna as in the 般若經. v. also 三敎.

三無性


三无性

see styles
sān wú xìng
    san1 wu2 xing4
san wu hsing
 san mushō
The three things without a nature or separate existence of their own: (a) 相無性 form, appearance or seeming, is unreal, e.g. a rope appearing like a snake; (b) 生無性 life ditto, for it is like the rope, which is derived from constituent materials; (c) 勝義無性 the 勝義, concept of the 眞如 or bhūtatathatā, is unreal, e.g. the hemp of which the rope is made; the bhūtatathatā is perfect and eternal. Every representation of it is abstract and unreal. The three are also known as 相無性, 無自然性, 法無性; v. 唯識論 9.

三種斷


三种断

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sān zhǒng duàn
    san1 zhong3 duan4
san chung tuan
 sanshu dan
The three kinds of uccheda— cutting-off, excision, or bringing to an end: (1) (a) 自性斷 with the incoming of wisdom, passion or illusion ceases of itself; (b) 不生斷 with realization of the doctrine that all is 空 unreal, evil karma ceases to arise; (c) 緣縛斷 illusion being ended, the causal nexus of the passions disappears and the attraction of the external ceases. (2) The three śrāvaka or ascetic stages are (a) 見所斷 ending the condition of false views; (b) 修行斷 getting rid of desire and illusion in practice; (c) 非所斷 no more illusion or desire to be cut off.

不可得

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bù kě dé
    bu4 ke3 de2
pu k`o te
    pu ko te
 fukatoku
    ふかとく
{Buddh} the unobtainable (that which cannot be known)
ampalabhya; alabhya. Beyond laying hold of, unobtainable, unknowable, unreal, another name for 空 the void. See 三世心不可得.

二空觀


二空观

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èr kōng guān
    er4 kong1 guan1
erh k`ung kuan
    erh kung kuan
 ni kūkan
Two kinds of meditation on the "void', or unreality: (a) 無生觀 the meditation that things are unproduced, having no individual or separate natures, i.e. that all things are void and unreal; cf. 性空; (b) 無相觀 that they are therefore formless, cf. 相空. Also 人 and 法空觀 see above.

偏小情

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piān xiǎo qíng
    pian1 xiao3 qing2
p`ien hsiao ch`ing
    pien hsiao ching
 henshō no jō
The partial or narrower Hīnayāna idea that though the ego is unreal, things are real.

內外空


内外空

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nèi wài kōng
    nei4 wai4 kong1
nei wai k`ung
    nei wai kung
 naige kū
Internal organ and external object are both unreal, or not material.

六大觀


六大观

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liù dà guān
    liu4 da4 guan1
liu ta kuan
 rokudai kan
Meditation on the six elements; in the exoteric cult, that they are unreal and unclean; in the esoteric cult, that the Buddha and human elements are of the same substance and interchangeable, see above.

妄境界

see styles
wàng jìng jiè
    wang4 jing4 jie4
wang ching chieh
 mō kyōgai
False environment; the unreal world.

性空教

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xìng kōng jiào
    xing4 kong1 jiao4
hsing k`ung chiao
    hsing kung chiao
 shōkū gyō
One of the three 南山 Nanshan sects which regarded the nature of things as unreal or immaterial, but held that the things were temporally entities.

旋火輪


旋火轮

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xuán huǒ lún
    xuan2 huo3 lun2
hsüan huo lun
 senkarin
A whirling wheel of fire, a circle yet not a circle, a simile of the seeming but unreal, i.e. the unreality of phenomena.

法非法

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fǎ fēi fǎ
    fa3 fei1 fa3
fa fei fa
 hō hihō
dharmādharma; real and unreal; thing and nothing; being and non-being, etc.

無始空


无始空

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wú shǐ kōng
    wu2 shi3 kong1
wu shih k`ung
    wu shih kung
 mushi kū
Without beginning and unreal, void without beginning, the abstract idea of 無始 i.e. without beginning.

畢境空

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bì jìng kōng
    bi4 jing4 kong1
pi ching k`ung
    pi ching kung
Fundamentally unreal, immaterial, or void, see 空.

相無生


相无生

see styles
xiàng wú shēng
    xiang4 wu2 sheng1
hsiang wu sheng
 sō mushō
Unreal in phenomena, e. g. turtle-hair or rabbit's horns; the unreality of phenomena, one of the 三無生.

眞法界

see styles
zhēn fǎ jiè
    zhen1 fa3 jie4
chen fa chieh
 shin hokkai
The region of reality apart from the temporal and unreal.

空三昧

see styles
kōng sān mèi
    kong1 san1 mei4
k`ung san mei
    kung san mei
 kū zanmai
The samādhi which regards the ego and things as unreal; one of the 三三昧.

空無我


空无我

see styles
kōng wú wǒ
    kong1 wu2 wo3
k`ung wu wo
    kung wu wo
 kū muga
Unreal and without ego. 空無邊處. v. 空處.

第二月

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dì èr yuè
    di4 er4 yue4
ti erh yüeh
 daini gatsu
A double or second moon, which is an optical illusion, unreal.

虛妄法


虚妄法

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xū wàng fǎ
    xu1 wang4 fa3
hsü wang fa
 komō hō
Unreal things or sensations, such as those perceived by the senses.

虛妄輪


虚妄轮

see styles
xū wàng lún
    xu1 wang4 lun2
hsü wang lun
 komō rin
The unreal wheel of life, or transmigration.

音響忍


音响忍

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yīn xiǎng rěn
    yin1 xiang3 ren3
yin hsiang jen
Sound and echo perseverance, the patience which realizes that all is as unreal as sound and echo.

假名世間


假名世间

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jiǎ míng shì jiān
    jia3 ming2 shi4 jian1
chia ming shih chien
 kemyō seken
The world of unreal names, i. e. the phenomenal world of sentient beings.

唯識中道


唯识中道

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wéi shì zhōng dào
    wei2 shi4 zhong1 dao4
wei shih chung tao
 yuishiki chūdō
The madhya, or medial doctrine of idealism as held by the 法相 Dharmalakṣana school, that all things are of mind, evolution, and are neither in themselves real nor unreal.

圓融三諦


圆融三谛

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yuán róng sān dì
    yuan2 rong2 san1 di4
yüan jung san ti
 enyū sandai
The three dogmas of 空假中 as combined, as one and the same, as a unity, according to the Tiantai inclusive or perfect school. The universal 空 apart from the particular 假 is an abstraction. The particular apart from the universal is unreal. The universal realizes its true nature in the particular, and the particular derives its meaning from the universal. The middle path 中 unites these two aspects of one reality.

水沫泡焰

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shuǐ mò pào yàn
    shui3 mo4 pao4 yan4
shui mo p`ao yen
    shui mo pao yen
 suimatsu hō en
Spume, bubbles, and flame, e. g. that all is unreal and transient.

當體卽空


当体卽空

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dāng tǐ jí kōng
    dang1 ti3 ji2 kong1
tang t`i chi k`ung
    tang ti chi kung
 tōtai sokkū
idem 體空 Corporeal entities are unreal, for they disintegrate.

空空寂寂

see styles
kōng kōng jí jí
    kong1 kong1 ji2 ji2
k`ung k`ung chi chi
    kung kung chi chi
 kūkū jakujaku
    くうくうじゃくじゃく
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to) (archaism) (yoji) deserted and lonesome; quiet and alone; innocent and nonattached; All is void
Void and silent, i.e. everything in the universe, with form or without form, is unreal and not to be considered as real.

虛假不實


虚假不实

see styles
xū jiǎ bù shí
    xu1 jia3 bu4 shi2
hsü chia pu shih
 koke fujitsu
vacuous, contingent, and unreal

非現実的

see styles
 higenjitsuteki
    ひげんじつてき
(adjectival noun) unrealistic; impractical; infeasible; unreal

四大元無主


四大元无主

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sì dà yuán wú zhǔ
    si4 da4 yuan2 wu2 zhu3
ssu ta yüan wu chu
 shidai gan mushu
The verse uttered by 肇法師 Zhao Fashi when facing death under the 姚秦 Yao Qin emperor, fourth century A. D.: — 'No master have the four elements,
Unreal are the five skandhas,
When my head meets the white blade,
Twill be but slicing the spring wind.
The 'four elements' are the physical body.

遣虛存實識


遣虚存实识

see styles
qiǎn xū cún shí shì
    qian3 xu1 cun2 shi2 shi4
ch`ien hsü ts`un shih shih
    chien hsü tsun shih shih
 kenko zonjitsu shiki
consciousness of expelling the unreal and living in the real

有りもしない

see styles
 arimoshinai
    ありもしない
(adjective) nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious

盼星星盼月亮

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pàn xīng xīng pàn yuè liàng
    pan4 xing1 xing1 pan4 yue4 liang4
p`an hsing hsing p`an yüeh liang
    pan hsing hsing pan yüeh liang
to wish for the stars and the moon; to have unreal expectations

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

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