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境界

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Basic Meaning: perceptual objects

Senses:

  • Object(s) perceived by the sensory and perceptive organs. The sphere of cognition. Sphere, realm, place. The Skt. viṣaya means the realm to which oneʼs power extends or the region to which the result of oneʼs conduct reaches. Skt. gocara means the sphere where one performs oneʼs activities as well as the world where one is born and lives according to the result of his former conduct. Both viṣaya and gocara indicate the object of cognition (Skt. jñeya; Tib. yul). [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Stephen Hodge, YBh-Ind, Iwanami]
  • Feeling, sensation, mood. Mental state, viewpoint; condition, situation. [Charles Muller]
  • Greene (2012) argues at length that in a core group of chan/meditation scriptures from the first half of the fifth century (esp. T 613, T 620), jingjie is best interpreted as 'verificatory vision,' and throughout his work, he translates accordingly. This interpretation of this term is closely linked to Greeneʼs central thesis, that passages interpreted in prior scholarship as stipulating 'visualizations' practices are best interpreted in many contexts as describing spontaneous visions which, by a process like divination, signify the success or failure of a practice, the prior karma of the practitioner, etc.

    Reference:

    Greene, Eric M. 2016. “Visions and Visualizations: In Fifth-Century Chinese Buddhism and Nineteenth-Century Experimental Psychology.”History of Religions 55 (3): 289–328.

    [Michael Radich]
  • The resultant condition each being ends up in according to their actions: 'fruit,' 'reward,' '-hood'  果報. The 'lot' or 'circumstances' one ends up being born into. [L. Thompson]
  • Oneʼs area of specialization; oneʼs own limits. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. ālambana, artha; rāṣṭra; avalambana, ārambaṇa, ārya-viṣaya, upavicāra, gati, gocaratva, gocara-viṣaya, jñeya-bhūmi, dhātu, nimitta, patha, bhoga, maṇḍala, rājya, vastu, viṣayatva, viṣayita, viṣyin, samāśraya, sva-gocara, sva-viṣaya) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 185

    Bulgyo sajeon 35a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 215c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 171

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 189b/211

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 432

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 238c

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0302

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 249-2

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

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 273

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2017-08-08