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六十二見

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Basic Meaning: sixty-two (mistaken) views

Senses:

  • These are principally elucidated in the Sutra on the Brahmāʼs Net of Sixty-two Views (Brahmajāla Sutta) 梵網六十二見經:
    1. four kinds of eternalism, śaśvat dṛṣṭi 常論 (四種);
    2. four kinds of dualistic eternalism and non-eternalism, ekatya śaśvat dṛṣṭi 亦常亦無常論(四種);
    3. four views of the world being finite or infinite, antānanta dṛṣṭi 邊無邊論 (四種);
    4. four kinds of equivocation, amara vikṣepa vāda 種種論 (四種);
    5. two doctrines of non-causality, adhicca samutpāda vāda 無因而有論(二種).

    There were also śramaṇas and brāhmaṇas, who, speculating on the future, adhered to and asserted their wrong views in five categories of forty-four ways, namely:

    1. sixteen kinds of belief in the existence of cognition (saṃjñā) after death, uddharma āghātanika saṃjñā vāda 有想論 (十六種);
    2. eight kinds of belief in the nonexistence of cognition after death, uddharma āghātanika asaṃjñi vāda 無想論 (八種);
    3. eight kinds of belief in the existence of neither perception nor non-perception after death, uddharma āghātanika naivasaṃjñā nāsaṃjñā vāda 非有想非無想論 (八種);
    4. seven kinds of belief in annihilation, uccheda vāda 斷滅論 (七種);
    5. five kinds of mundane nirvana as realizable in this very life, dṛṣṭa dharma nirvāṇa vāda 現在泥洹論 (五種).

    Other versions of the sixty-two can be found in the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra 維摩經, the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya 倶舍論 and others (Skt. dvāṣaṣṭi-dṛṣṭi, dvāṣaṣṭi dṛṣṭayaḥ; Tib. lta bar gyur pa drug cu rtsa gnyes).

    [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, YBh-Ind, Hirakawa,Iwanami]
  • The sixty-two views , of which three groups are given: The 大品般若經 in the 佛母品 takes each of the five skandhas under four considerations of time, considered as time past, whether each of the five has had permanence, impermanence, both, neither, 5 x 4 = 20; again as to their space, or extension, considered as present time, whether each is finite, infinite, both, neither =20; again as to their destination, i.e., future, as to whether each goes on, or does not, both, neither (e.g., continued personality) = 20, or in all 60; add the two ideas whether body and mind are a unity or different = 62. The Tiantai school 天台宗 takes 我見, or personality, as its basis and considers each of the five skandhas 五蘊 under four aspects, e. g (1) rūpa, the organized body, as the self; (2) the self as apart from the rūpa; (3) rūpa as the greater, the self the smaller or inferior, and the self as dwelling in the rūpa; (4) the self as the greater, rūpa the inferior, and the rūpa in the self. Consider these twenty in the past, present, and future = 60, and add and impermanence and permanence as fundamentals = 62. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1137

    Bulgyo sajeon 682a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1317d

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 847

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 239a/265

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1454d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1241

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0166

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 408-1*1831-1

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 132



    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2019-05-30