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外道四執

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Basic Meaning: four non-Buddhist doctrines [regarding causation]

Senses:

  • A classification of non-Buddhist philosophical approaches into four categories—which formulate that:
    1. all phenomena 法 (dharmas, elemental factors) are basically the same 邪因邪果 (執一論). This is the view of the Sāṃkhyas 數論, who considered the effect 果 (phala) exists within the cause 因 (hetu); therefore the cause and the effect are essentially one. In the Sanlun xuanyi this is described as the belief that all things are produced and are annihilated based on the will of Mahêśvara 大自在天.
    2. all phenomena are different (having separate existences in nature) 無因有果 (執異論). This is the view of the Vaiśeṣikas 勝論宗, who held that the effect does not exist within the cause; therefore the cause and the effect are different and separate.
    3. all phenomena are the same, and yet also different 有因無果 (執亦一亦異論). This is the view of the Jains 尼犍子, who saw the cause and the effect are one and the same when the effect exists within the cause, and that the two are separate and different when the effect does not exist within the cause.
    4. all phenomena are neither the same nor different 無因無果 (執非一非異論). This negative doctrine was held by the Ājīvikas 邪命外道, who considered that the cause and the effect are neither one, nor separate and different.
    Also written 外道四宗, 外道四見, 外道四計, 四種外道, 四見, 四執, 四邪, 四迷, 四術. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, JEBD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 231

    Bulgyo sajeon 631a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) ---/079

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1873

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 705-1

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    Entry created: 2007-09-07

    Updated: 2021-01-16