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正精進

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Basic Meaning: correct effort

Senses:

  • Right effort, zeal, or progress, unintermitting perseverance, the sixth item of the eightfold path 八正道. "right effort, to suppress the rising of evil states, to eradicate those which have arisen, to stimulate good states, and to perfect those which have come into being." (Keith) Also expressed as 正方便. (Skt. *samyag-vīrya, vyāyāma, samyag-vyāyāma; Tib. yang dag pa'i rtsol ba; Pāli sammā-vāyāma) [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 540

    Bulgyo sajeon 782a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 560a

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 697

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 701b

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0687

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4214c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 774-2

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

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 193

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2009-08-19