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世俗諦

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Basic Meaning: conventional truth

Senses:

  • Relative truth; mundane truth; worldly truth (saṃvṛti-satya, ). Reality as it is perceived and expressed by unenlightened sentient beings. Ordinary understanding; conventional discourse. Reality from the standpoint of the discriminating mind. Also written 俗諦 and 世諦. Understood negatively, this truth represents the limitations of the understanding of unenlightened people. Interpreted positively, the buddhas and bodhisattvas utilize their full understanding of conventional truths as skillful means 方便 to guide sentient beings away from suffering. This is distinguished from the ultimate truth 勝義諦, 眞諦. See also 二諦. (Skt. loka-saṃvṛti-satya, saṃvṛti-sat, saṃvṛtti-satyatva; Tib. kun rdzob bden pa). [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 619

    Bulgyo sajeon 472a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 658d

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 263, 325

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 266b/294

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 612

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 819a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1516

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0068

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2072a,4022a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1029-1

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

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2020-07-06