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五種性

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Basic Meaning: five kinds of proclivities (for attaining enlightenment)

Senses:

  • The five natures, or roots of bodhisattva development:
    1. proclivity attained by practice 習種性 the nature attained through study of emptiness 空, correcting the two classes of afflictions of views and perceptions 見思二惑 in the stages of the ten abodes 十住;
    2. proclivity possessed by nature 性種性. Here bodhisattvas do not linger in the experience of emptiness, but use their insights to discriminate all the 性 natures of phenomena and transform sentient beings. The period of the practices 十行.
    3. proclivity of the path 道種性; using the insight into the middle way 中道, bodhisattvas in the stages of the ten dedications 十廻向 master all the teachings of the buddhas.
    4. the holy proclivity 聖種性; bodhisattvas arriving to the end of the ten dedications of merit 十廻向 continue to cultivate the insight of the middle way, undoing the functions of nescience, entering into the ten grounds 十地.
    5. the proclivity of virtual enlightenment 等覺種性, the nature that produces Buddhahood, i. e. 等覺.
    The locus classicus is the Brahmāʼs Net Sutra 梵網經 (Skt. pañca-gotrāḥ, pañca-gotrāṇi; Tib. rigs lnga). 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.8b1〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 273

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 364c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1179

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1212b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 533-2*824-3

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 124

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    Entry created: 2001-12-09

    Updated: 2011-12-12