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正偏五位

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Basic Meaning: five stages of correct and partial realization

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  • Also written 偏正五位. A theory attributed to Dongshan Liangjie 洞山良价 regarding the realization of ultimate truth in five stages. (1) Ultimate reality does not transcend temporal phenomena 正中偏. (2) The differentiation of the phenomenal world is none other than the unity underlying the phenomenal world 偏中正. (3) Even in the state in which discriminative thinking is transcended, there exists the power to manifest the function of all phenomena 正中來. (4) Even in the phenomenal world of differentiation, there exists the power to reach ultimate unity 兼中至. (5) The state in which the preceding four conditions are perfectly blended with one another 兼中到. 〔 T 1986B.47.525c5〕 . [Matthew McMullen, Griffith Foulk; source(s): JEBD, Ui, Nakamura, Yokoi]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 541

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 579b

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 294a/326

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 684

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 703c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3864c

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    Entry created: 2017-05-28

    Updated: 2021-10-19