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世間

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: world

Senses:

  • Conventional, mundane, worldly. The secular world. The logograph 世 means 'transient,' while the logograph 間 means 'within.' The transient world of phenomenal appearances. Used with similar connotations in early classical Chinese texts such as the Shiji 史記.(Skt. loka, laukika; loka-dhātu, sarva-loka, sarga, jagat; Tib. 'gro ba, 'jig rten pa) [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge; source(s): Nakamura, Yokoi, Iwanami]
  • The people of the world; this world; sentient beings 人間. The customs of the secular world; conventions 俗. [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge; source(s): Nakamura]
  • In texts that discuss doctrines of levels of practitioners, this term is equivalent in meaning to 'unenlightened sentient being'  凡夫. In bodhisattva path theory, it usually refers to persons who are at the stage of the ten faiths 十信, ten understandings 十解, or ten practices 十行, thus being contrasted with the term 'transmundane'  出世間, which refers to the world perceived by enlightened practitioners, such as bodhisattvas in the ten grounds 十地, and buddhas. [Charles Muller]
  • The 'container world' (器世間); the unconditioned realm (Skt. bhājana-loka). [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. alokôttaratva, iha, *iha-loka, kusaṃskṛta, kṣetra, jaga, jana, jīva-loka, nara-loka, prajā, bhūta, bhūtala-maṇḍala, manu-jāḥ, mahā-jana-kāya, medini, loka-yātrā, lokika, lokya, laukikī, laukikya, vīthī, saṃsāra) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 618

    Bulgyo sajeon 471a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 657b

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 487

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 602

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 5-P6

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 816b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1524

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0069

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2919b,1596a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1026-1

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

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 165

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 434

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    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2011-10-06