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世間道

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: mundane paths

Senses:

  • Tainted paths 有漏道; categories of practice that are carried out by unenlightened practitioners, and thus rely mainly on expedient teachings aimed primarily at the correction of mistaken moral behavior and elementary forms of mental cultivation. Such practices include the cultivation of the four dhyānas, which aim at rebirth in the four dhyāna heavens 四禪天 amidst the seventeen celestial abodes of the form realm 色界十七天.These are distinguished from the practices associated with the supramundane paths 出世道, wherein the practitioner is relying on enlightened insight, and wherein the practitioner aims at nirvana, the cessation of rebirth (Deleanu 2012, 158). In the five levels of practice 五位 taught in Abhidharma and Yogâcāra, the first two are usually understood to be mundane, and the latter three, supramundane (Skt. lauikika-mārga, lauikikena mārgeṇa, loka-gati, laukika; Tib. 'jig rten gyi lam). 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.392b14〕

    References:

    Deleanu, Florin. 2012. “Yugagyō no jissen 瑜伽行の実践 .”  In Takasaki, Jikidō,  Shoryū Katsura, eds. Yuishiki to Yugagyō 唯識と瑜伽行 . Tokyo:  Shunjūsha. 152–180.

    [Charles Muller, Billy Brewster; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    Entry created: 2003-04-20

    Updated: 2018-12-14