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八法

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Basic Meaning: eight dharmas

Senses:

  • The eight dharmas, things, or methods. There are various lists: [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui,Soothill]
  • The eight winds 八風. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • The four elements 四大 and the four data-fields 四微 [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • The eight essential things, i.e. instruction 教, doctrine 理, knowledge 智 or wisdom attained, cutting away of delusion 斷, practice of the religious life 行, progressive status 位, cause 因 and the fruit 果 of holiness. Among these, the set of 教理行果 are known as the four dharmas 四法. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • The eight mundane concerns 世間八法. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 870

    Bulgyo sajeon 897a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1110d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 287

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4214b, (v.9-10)819b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1417-2

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2021-03-21