DDB: 加行位 | stage of applied practices

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加行位

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Basic Meaning: stage of applied practices

Senses:

(Skt. prayogâvasthā, prāyoga) The second among the five stages of practice 五位 as outlined by Vasubandhu 世親 in his Triṃśikā 唯識三十論. This is the stage where the unenlightened practitioner engages properly in various meditative and moral practices that should ultimately lead to an experience of direct insight into the real character of existence, attaining uncontaminated cognition 無漏智 to enter the path of seeing 見道. It is a putting into practice of the basic teachings learned in the prior stage of preparation 資糧位. This stage corresponds with the stage of skillful means 方便道 which is taught in other texts at the same level. This is the stage during which the practitioner cultivates the four wholesome roots 四善根. (Skt. adhimukti-caryā-bhūmi, vyavacāraṇâvasthā) 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.41a17〕〔倶舍論〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Hirakawa, Nakamura, JEBD]

This term can refer specifically to the two stages of applied practices listed in the bodhisattvas' twelve abodes 十二住—the seventh and eighth abodes. See also 四加行. [Charles Muller]

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[Dictionary References]

Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 223

Bulgyo sajeon 9a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 266c

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 168a/186

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 293d

Fo Guang Dictionary 1570

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0200

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)855a,856b,1862c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 382-1

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 167

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Entry created: 1993-09-01

Updated: 2019-06-23