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五種天

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: five kinds of celestials

Senses:

    1. 名天 famous rulers on earth styled 天王, 天子;
    2. 生天 the highest incarnations of the six paths;
    3. 淨天 the pure, or the saints, from śrāvakas to pratyekabuddhas, and
    4. 義天 all bodhisattvas above the ten stages 十住, and
    5. 第一義天 a supreme heaven with bodhisattvas and buddhas in eternal immutability.
    Cf. 天宮. 〔諸經要集 T 2123.54.164c17〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 274

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 365b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1178

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1244-3

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 143

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    Entry created: 2002-01-28

    Updated: 2007-08-03