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二因

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: two causes

Senses:

  • Of which there are various pairs, depending on the source:
    1. The generative cause 生因 (of all good things); and the awareness-cause 了因 — i.e. knowledge, or wisdom.
    2. productive cause 能生因, referring to the seeds in the ālayavijñāna as the basic causes for the production of all mental events, and the 方便因—the environmental or supporting causes, which aid in the production of the event the way water or earth does the seed, etc. Among the four kinds of causation 四緣, the first kind 因緣, is the productive cause, and the latter three are the supporting causes.
    3. Practice or habit as cause 習因 or 同類因 e.g., desire causing desire; and the rewarding cause 報因 or 異熟因, ripening cause, e.g., pleasure or pain caused by good or evil deeds.
    4. 正因 Correct or direct cause i.e. the Buddha-nature of all beings; and 緣因 the contributory cause, or enlightenment (see 了因 above), which evolves the 正因 or Buddha-nature by good works.
    5. 近因 Immediate or direct cause; and 遠因 distant or indirect cause or causes.
    [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 805

    Bulgyo sajeon 720a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 193

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)172b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 91-1*1307-2

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2023-05-29