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Basic Meaning: application

Senses:

  • Attentiveness; paying attention to; applied practices (Skt. prayoga, prayogika, prāyogika, abhisaṃskāra; Tib. sbyor ba). A few things are implied in this term, the first being the fact that one consciously exerts oneself toward practices of meditation, morality, wisdom, and so forth. The reference is usually to practices undertaken at a relatively early stage, but where one is not a total beginner, having understood the basic framework and goals of Buddhism enough to put them into actual application. When compared with later, more advanced stages (such as the Path of Seeing 見道), the distinction that is made is that since the practices in the later stages are initiated based on some sort of awakening experience, one does not need to consciously force the practice—it happens spontaneously. In the identification of these kinds of practices constituting a distinct stage (加行道 or 加行位), it is one of the five levels of practice 五位 outlined in Abhidharma and Yogâcāra, where it was rendered at an earlier period as the stage of skillful means 方便道. (Skt. *anuyoga, abhiyoga, ābhisaṃskārika, prayukta, prayujyate, prāyogaḥ kṛtaḥ, prāyoga-ja, prāyogatas, prāyoga-mārga, prāyogitva, prāyogin, prahāra, prāyogikatva, vardhayitum, vyavacāraṇa, sāmantaka) 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.315b9, 成唯識論 T 1585.31.5c5〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, YBh-Ind, Yokoi, Hirakawa, Iwanami]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 223

    Bulgyo sajeon 9a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 266c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 110, 220

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 356

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 293c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1570

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0200

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)854c,1969c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 381-3

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

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 167

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-01-14