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九種大禪

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Basic Meaning: nine kinds of Mahāyāna meditation

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  • The nine kinds of Mahāyāna dhyāna for bodhisattvas, given in the Bodhisattvabhūmi-sūtra and other works; they are associated with the patience pāramitā 忍波羅蜜 and with the dhyāna of the super-realms. The nine are:
    1. 自性禪 meditation on the original nature of things, or mind as the real nature, from which all things derive;
    2. 一切禪 meditation on achieving the development of self and all others to the utmost;
    3. 難禪 meditation on the difficulties of certain dhyāna conditions;
    4. 一切門禪 meditation on the entrance to all the (superior) dhyāna conditions;
    5. 善人禪 meditation on the good;
    6. 一切行禪 meditation on all Mahāyāna practices and actions;
    7. 除煩惱禪 meditation on ridding all sufferers from the miseries of affliction and delusion;
    8. 此世他世樂禪 meditation on the way to bring joy to all people both in this life and hereafter;
    9. 淸淨淨禪 meditation on perfect purity in the termination of all delusion and distress and the obtaining of perfect enlightenment.
    〔菩薩地持經 T 1581.30.921c3〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD, Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 197

    Bulgyo sajeon 83a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 188a/209

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 254c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 152

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)672c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1054-2

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2010-08-28