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平等性智

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Basic Meaning: cognition of essential identity

Senses:

  • The cognition of the equality of all things, due to the realization of emptiness. The cognition that embodies the equality of self and others, transforming the defiled seventh consciousness into a pure form of cognition (Skt. samatā-jñāna). Depending on this cognition one arises the mind of great compassion (bodhicitta). It is one of the 'four cognitions'  四智 in Yogâcāra theory. It functions to extinguish the manas or 'ego-consciousness,' along with its four basic afflictive functions 四惑: self-love, self view, pride. The esoteric school also calls it the 灌頂智 and Ratnasaṃbhava wisdom. Cf. 五智. Also transliterate as 三昧耶智. [Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD, Yokoi]
  • In Wonhyoʼs commentary on the Sutra of Immeasurable Life, this cognition is associated with that sūtraʼs 'cognition of the breadth of the great vehicle'  大乘廣智. Since one is able to see to the sameness in nature, one is not tricked into the prejudices of the lesser vehicles, or trapped in the doctrines of either self or selflessness. [Charles Muller]
  • 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.21b2〕 [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 897

    Bulgyo sajeon 908a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1054d

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 28b/30

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 48

    Zen Dust (Sasaki) 311

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1147c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1916

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0424

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1246c,1886b,3548a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1187-3-20*1493-2

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 187

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2008-06-12