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三觀

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: three contemplations

Senses:

  • Three observations taught in the Yingluo benye jing 瓔珞本業經 that were later elucidated by Zhiyi智顗. These are:
    1. the view of emptiness 空觀, which negates mistaken notions of common-sense reality.
    2. The view of dependent arising, which cancels extreme attachment to emptiness 假觀 (also see 從假入空)
    3. the middle view 中觀, which utilizes either of the above but is not attached.
    See also 中道第一義觀 (Skt. trividho'bhisamayaḥ). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD,Hirakawa, Iwanami]
  • The three kinds of meditation taught in the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment 圓覺經. These are
    1. śamatha 奢摩他, the form of meditation in which the mind is stilled by concentration on an object;
    2. samāpatti 三摩鉢提, which is contemplative meditation utilizing a Buddhist conceptual framework such as dependent arising, and
    3. dhyāna 禪那 which is the practice of nonabiding in either of the other two. One might easily draw parallels between these three and the three in the first part of the definition.
    [Charles Muller]
  • The three views of emptiness taught by Daoxuan of the Nanshan Vinaya school. See 南山三觀. [Charles Muller]
  • The Huayan group is 眞空觀, 理事無礙觀 and 周遍含容觀.

    The Faxiang group is 有觀, 空觀 and 中觀.

    (Skt. tri-śamatha, tri-samāpatti, tri-dhyāna, trividho'bhisamayaḥ) [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • les trois contemplations [Paul Swanson]
  • passe de la conditionnalité à la vacuité a nom contemplation des deux vérités; passer de la vacuité à la conditionnalité a nom contemplation d'égalité; la contemplation de la vérité primordiale de la Voie médiane. Ref. 〔摩訶止觀 T 1911.46.24b5–25c13〕 See also: threefold cessation, threefold truth [Paul Swanson]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 347

    Bulgyo sajeon 394a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 389d

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 311

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 252b/279

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 459a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 706

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0028

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 612-3

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 76

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2011-12-05