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心病

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Basic Meaning: mental disease

Senses:

  • Pain, affliction, distress, pain from disease, anguish. The basic uncomfortable state of mind arising out of failure to recognize the equality of all phenomena, which generates craving, aversion, and all their derivatives. Distinguished from bodily illness 身病. 〔信心銘 T 2010.48.376b23〕 (Skt. caitasikaṃ gailānyam, *citta-vyādhi, kleśa) [Charles Muller; source(s): Yokoi, Hirakawa, DFB, Ina-Z, Nakamura, LinYutang, M-W]
  • Mental imbalances created by the study and practice of Buddhism itself, such as nihilism 斷見 generated from an improper appropriation of the emptiness doctrine, sickness from over-indulgence in meditation 禪病, etc. 〔菩薩戒本持犯要記 T 1907.45.920a10; 反故集〕 [Charles Muller]
  • Worldly occupation, care, trouble. [Charles Muller; source(s): M-W]
  • Some secret concern, longing, desire; a personʼs touchy or sensitive point. [Charles Muller; source(s): LinYutang]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 589

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 622d

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 342

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 648

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 11-P194, 16-P9

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 768d

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0463

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4357c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 881-3

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    Entry created: 2009-04-15

    Updated: 2009-12-08