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三解脫門

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: three gates of liberation

Senses:

  • Also known as three kinds of emptiness 三空 and three absorptions 三三昧. Three approaches to meditative contemplation:
    1. meditation on nonsubstantiality 空解脫 (or 空法),
    2. meditation on signlessness 無相解脫 and
    3. meditation on desirelessness 無作解脫 (also 無願, 無造).
    Also written 三解脫, 三涅槃門, and 三空門. These are three kinds of meditative practices (Skt. vimokṣa-traya, trīṇi vimokṣa-mukhāni, vimokṣa-mukha-traya; Tib. rnam thar sgo gsum). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, YBh-Ind, JEBD, Hirakawa, Iwanami]
  • In the Diamond Sutra these are emptiness liberation 虛空解脫, adamantine liberation 金剛解脫 and prajñā liberation 般若解脫. 〔金剛三昧經 T 273.9.370a28〕 [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bulgyo sajeon 426a

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 313

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 304

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

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 460d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 644

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0026

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1498b,888c,1513c,1691b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 615-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2021-07-24