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下地

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: lower levels

Senses:

  • Those things that exist beneath the objects of the objective world perceived by the practitioner (Skt. adhara-svābhūmi). [Charles Muller]
  • In the division of the objects of the triple realm into nine levels 九地, the bottom three levels of inferior objects are indicated by this term. [Charles Muller]
  • The lower stages of the ten bhūmi 十地 of the bodhisattvas (Skt. adho-bhūmi). [Charles Muller]
  • To get off, get down, alight (from a vehicle). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • (Skt. adho-bhūmika, adhara-bhūmika, adhara-dhātuka; adhara, adhara-dhyāna, adhara-bhūmi, adharābhūmiḥ, adhas, adhastāt, adho-bhūmikomārgaḥ, ādhastanīṃ-bhūmim, iha, hīna-bhūmi, hīna-bhūmika) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 229

    Koga 40

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 302d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 711

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0032

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 438-3

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

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2007-05-14