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宗

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: a tenet

Senses:

  • A thesis (Skt. pakṣa, pratijñā; Tib. dam bcas pa). In Buddhist logic, the first part of the three-part or five-part syllogism (三支作法, 五支作法). For a systematic overview including this term, see 能立 as well as 因明. [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge; source(s): Ui, JEBD, Iwanami]
  • A certain teaching or tradition which has come from a certain source. A sect or denomination: the definitive doctrine of a certain school or sect. Schools are of two kinds: (1) those founded on principles having historic continuity, as the twenty schools of the Hīnayāna, the thirteen schools of China, and the fourteen schools of Japan: (2) those arising from an individual interpretation of the general teaching of Buddhism, as the sub-schools founded by Yongming 永明 (d. 975), such as the school that posits characteristics 法相宗, the school of Dharma-nature 法性宗, and the school that refutes characteristics 破相宗. Or those based on a peculiar interpretation of one of the recognized schools, as the Jōdo-shinshū 淨土眞宗 found by Shinran-shōnin. There are also divisions of five, six, and ten, which have reference to specific doctrinal differences. Cf. 宗派. [Charles Muller]
  • Ancestor; patriarch; origin. [Charles Muller]
  • Head, chief; like 主, as in 譯主. [Charles Muller]
  • A clan of single ancestry. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. siddhânta; abhyupagama, nyāya, pada, pākṣika, prasiddhi, mata, samaya; Tib. dam bca' ba) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 492

    Bulgyo sajeon 797a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 479a

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 389, 788

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 371

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 299b/332

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 9-P47

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 645a, 645b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 3143

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0375

    Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 393

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.9-10)362c,371c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 817-2

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2021-06-23