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四假

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Basic Meaning: four provisional methods for teaching sentient beings

Senses:

  • In the Sanlun xuanyi these are close in application to the four siddhântas 四悉檀.
    1. the teaching of causation 因緣假
    2. teaching according to the level of the student 隨緣假
    3. teaching to counteract specific extreme views 對緣假
    4. teaching from the vantage point of unenlightened sentient beings 就緣假
    〔三論玄義 T 1852.45.13a27〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, FGD]
  • In the Tattvasiddhi 成實論, four ways in which phenomena are only nominally existent:
    1. They are nominal in that they arise from causes 因生假, and have no fundamental reality of their own.
    2. They are nominal in that they are dependently arisen 緣成假; they are merely names applied to the combination of the five aggregates 五蘊.
    3. They are nominal in terms of relativity 相待假; short and long, heavy and light, big and small, etc. only exist relative to each other.
    4. They exist nominally by continuity 相續假; instants of form, sound, etc., give rise to succesive instants. 〔大乘義章〕
    [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 397

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 512a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1755

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 371-2*699-2

    (二種)Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1761b,923a

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    Entry created: 2021-08-15