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二解脫

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Basic Meaning: two kinds of liberation

Senses:

  • Two kinds of deliverance, mukti or mokṣa (Skt. dvi-vimokṣāḥ; Pāli dvi-vimokkhā):
    1. (a) 慧解脫 The arhatʼs deliverance from hindrances to wisdom; (b) 倶解脫 his complete deliverance in regard to both wisdom 慧 and concentration 定.
    2. (a) 心解脫 Mental liberation, meaning freedom from afflictions, comparable to removal of the afflictive hindrances 煩惱障; (b) 慧解脫 a mind delivered from nescience by wisdom; comparable to removal of the cognitive hindrances 智障.
    3. (a) 有爲解脫 Active or earthly deliverance to arhatship; (b) 無爲解脫 nirvana-deliverance.
    4. (a) 性淨解脫 The pure, original freedom or innocence; (b) 障盡解脫 deliverance acquired by the ending of all hindrances (to salvation).
    5. (a) 時解脫 The dull who take time or are slow in attaining to concentration 定; (b) 不時解脫 the quick or clever who take 'no time.'
    [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 808

    Bulgyo sajeon 727a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1042d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 218

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 437-2*1314-1

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2012-01-17