DDB: 三病 | three diseases

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三病

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: three diseases

Senses:

The three ailments: (Skt. tri-vyādhi)

(a) 貪 lust, for which the 不淨觀 meditation on uncleanness is the remedy; (b) 瞋 anger, or hate, remedy 慈悲觀 meditation on kindness and pity; (c) 癡 stupidity, or ignorance, remedy 因緣觀 meditation on causality. Cf. 三毒
(a) 謗 denigration of Mahāyāna; (b) 五逆罪 the five gross sins; (c) to be an icchantika

〔四分律 T 1428.22.998a21〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui,Soothill, Hirakawa]

The three “defects” or “peccant humors” (Skt. tridoṣa), of Wind (vāta), Bile (pitta), and Phlegm (śleṣman). These are the three chief symptoms or signs that arise in the sick body as a result of imbalance of the Four Elements. These three terms are translated in a number of ways, including vāta as 風, 風病, or 氣, pitta 膽, 熱, 熱病, 火病, 黃, 癀, 黃病, 黃熱, 黃痰, 痰, , 氣 and śleṣman as 痰, 痰病, 痰癮, 洟唾, 陰, 冷, 水, 肺, 唾, 唾汚, 涎唾, 寒, 水病, 唌唾, 水過肺, 肺病, 冷病, 白水, 淡, and 癊. See discussion of translation terms for doṣa in Salguero, 2010–11.

References:

Demiéville, Paul, and Mark Tatz. 1985. Buddhism and Healing: Demiévilleʼs Article "byō" from Hôbôgirin. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Translated by Mark Tatz

Salguero, C. Pierce. 2010-2011. “Mixing Metaphors: Translating the Indian Medical Doctrine Tridoṣa in Chinese Buddhist Sources.” 6, pp. 55-74.

[Pierce Salguero]

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[Dictionary References]

Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 373

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 407c

Fo Guang Dictionary 600

Ding Fubao

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 654-3

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 71

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Entry created: 2001-09-08

Updated: 2018-02-16