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sān dì

san dai / san tai

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三諦 is a Buddhist term that means “threefold truth” or “three dogmas.”

The three truths are:
1. All things are void (卽空).
2. All things are temporary (卽假).
3. All things are in the middle state between these two (卽中).

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Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese	Pronunciation Romanization	Simple Dictionary Definition
三諦三谛 see styles	sān dì san1 di4 san ti santai; sandai さんたい; さんだい	More info & calligraphy: 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.
一境三諦一境三谛 see styles	yī jìng sān dì yi1 jing4 san1 di4 i ching san ti ikkyō santai	一境三諦 Custom Scroll The three axioms in the one category; the three are 空, 假, and 中, which exist in every universe; v. 三諦. It is a principle of the Tiantai 圓教.
三諦圓融三谛圆融 see styles	sān dì yuán róng san1 di4 yuan2 rong2 san ti yüan jung sandai enyū	三諦圓融 Custom Scroll perfect interfusion of the three truths
三諦相卽三谛相卽 see styles	sān dì xiāng jí san1 di4 xiang1 ji2 san ti hsiang chi sandai sōsoku	三諦相卽 Custom Scroll The unity of 空, 假, 中, three aspects of the same reality, taught by the 圓教as distinguished from the 別教which separates them.
圓融三諦圆融三谛 see styles	yuán róng sān dì yuan2 rong2 san1 di4 yüan jung san ti enyū sandai	圓融三諦 Custom Scroll 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.
圓覺三諦圆觉三谛 see styles	yuán jué sān dì yuan2 jue2 san1 di4 yüan chüeh san ti engaku santai	圓覺三諦 Custom Scroll perfect awareness of the threefold truth
隔歷三諦隔历三谛 see styles	gé lì sān dì ge2 li4 san1 di4 ko li san ti kyakureki santai	隔歷三諦 Custom Scroll To differentiate and apprehend the three distinctive principles 空假中 noumenon, phenomenon, and the mean.
三諦圓融觀三谛圆融观 see styles	sān dì yuán róng guān san1 di4 yuan2 rong2 guan1 san ti yüan jung kuan sandai enyū kan	三諦圓融觀 Custom Scroll contemplation on the interfusion of the three truths
一念心中具足三諦一念心中具足三谛 see styles	yī niàn xīn zhōng jù zú sān dì yi1 nian4 xin1 zhong1 ju4 zu2 san1 di4 i nien hsin chung chü tsu san ti ichinen shinchū gusoku santai	一念心中具足三諦 Custom Scroll threefold truth is fully included in a single moment of thought

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title	Characters	Romaji (Romanized Japanese)	Various forms of Romanized Chinese
The Three Truths	三諦三谛	san dai / san tai sandai / santai	sān dì / san1 di4 / san di / sandi	san ti / santi
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.