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四行

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Basic Meaning: four practices

Senses:

  • The four practices taught in the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices 二入四行論. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • The four disciplinary processes in Esoteric Buddhism: enlightenment 菩提; good deeds 福德; wisdom 智慧; and worship (Skt. catasraḥ pratipadaḥ; Tib. rnam pa bzhi). [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, YBh-Ind, Hirakawa]
  • Observance of four of the five precepts 五戒, aside from drinking alcohol. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • The four Abhidharma paths 四道. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • The four elements 四大. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • The four bodhisattva practices 四菩薩行. 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.343a28〕 [Charles Muller]
  • The four modes of comportment of continual sitting 常坐, continual walking 常行, half-walking half sitting 半行半坐, and neither walking nor sitting 非行非坐. 〔十住心論〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 396

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 335

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 9-P257

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 510d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1690

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0280

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.9-10)979b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 694-3

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

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 181

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    Entry created: 2002-03-11

    Updated: 2009-07-20