Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

DDB Top Page 
 
 
  XML source

五位

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: five ranks

Senses:

  • Or five stages. Within various texts and traditions in Buddhism, we can find a fair number of sets of five stages. Some of these are listed as follows. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura,JEBD, Yokoi]
  • The five groups of the seventy-five dharmas taught by Sarvâstivāda 五位七十五法. [Charles Muller]
  • The five categories of the hundred dharmas taught in Yogâcāra 百法. [Charles Muller]
  • The five stage division of the Yogâcāra path of practice 唯識修道五位 (Skt. pañca-mārga; Tib. lam lnga). [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • The five stages taught in the Vajrasamādhi-sūtra 金剛五位. [Charles Muller]
  • The five ranks of the process of enlightenment taught by the Chan master Dongshan 洞山五位 (there are two types). [Charles Muller]
  • The five stages of the development of the fetus in the womb 胎內五位. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • Five ranks in the Japanese monastic system; see 僧位. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • Certain combinations of the 八卦 Eight Diagrams are sometimes styled 五位君臣 five positions of prince and minister. [Charles Muller]
  • Search SAT
  • Search INBUDS Database

    • Feedback

    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 264

    Bulgyo sajeon 616a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 301b

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 81

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 80b/89

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 163

    Zen Dust (Sasaki) 158, 166, 299, 356

    Zen Dust (Sasaki) 380

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 353d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1087

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 577-3

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 113

    Copyright provisions

    The rights to textual segments (nodes) of the DDB are owned by the author indicated in the brackets next to each segment. For rights regarding the compilation as a whole, please contact Charles Muller. Please do not reproduce without permission. And please do not copy into Wikipedia without proper citation!

    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2015-09-09