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賢

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: intelligent

Senses:

  • Bright, smart, wise; good, excellent, worthy, virtuous, of exemplary character. In pre-Buddhist Chinese thought, a 'worthy,' second rank to a saint or sage 聖. In Buddhist texts, it is often used to refer to a practitioner who is advanced beyond the level of a worldling 凡夫, but who is not enlightened to the degree of a bodhisattva. In Mahāyāna path schema, this term is applied to those in the thirty stages below the ten bhūmis, referred to as the 'stages of the three worthies'  三賢. In many Mahāyāna texts this level of advancement is equated with that of 'inner worldlings'  內凡 (Skt. bhadra, sat; ārādhika, kuśala, bhadra-śrī, bhadrā, *śakulā). [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]
  • A bhikṣu 比丘. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • To regard as virtuous or worthy. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bulgyo sajeon 938b-38

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 14-P163

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 328d

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1112

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)963c,4201c,4235a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 408-2

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2011-02-25