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七處善

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Basic Meaning: virtues of the seven sense fields

Senses:

  • Seven ways of realizing the four noble truths 四諦觀 by contemplating the true nature of the five skandha 五蘊. The seven forms of contemplation are: (1) contemplating the original body 本身 of form and (2) what causes such forms to arise, (3) the cessation 消滅 of forms and (4) path for cultivating this cessation, (5) to alieve attachment 執著 to phenomena and (6) the revulsion 嫌惡 to such attachments, and (7) overcoming the previous six contemplations. 〔雜阿含經 T 099.2.10a5〕 [Matthew McMullen; source(s): Ui, JEBD, FGD]
  • [One who inhabits] seven skillful loci — another name for the class of stream-winners 預流果 reborn seven rounds at most 極七返 in each of the destinies of the human and deva realms, and their corresponding afterlives as an intermediate being (28 times total). [Billy Brewster; source(s): DFB]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 452

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 275a/302

    Fo Guang Dictionary 106

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1905a,1907c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 733-3

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    Entry created: 2018-01-28

    Updated: 2018-06-22