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中道宗

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Basic Meaning: Middle Way School

Senses:

  • The Faxiang school 法相宗, which, based on the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra 解深密經, regards itself as the elucidation of the dharma in the third period of the Buddhaʼs teaching, offering the via media between the two extremes, the absolute as not confined to the phenomenal or the noumenal; also called 中道教 and 中宗. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Nakamura, Ui]
  • A Goryeo period school in Korea, considered to be a later extension of the Beopseong 法性 school. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 738

    Bulgyo sajeon 808a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 960c

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1208-1

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2010-09-05