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無盡

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: inexhaustible

Senses:

  • Limitless; endless (Skt. akṣaya; Tib. mi zad pa); unbounded, unending (Skt. aparyanta). In Tiantai discourse, it is a term applied by the provisional teaching 權教 to the noumenal or absolute; by the absolute teaching 實教 to the phenomenal, both being considered as infinite. the Huayan sūtra 十地品 has ten limitless things, the infinitude of living beings, of worlds, of space, of the dharmadhātu, of nirvana, etc. 1336b [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, Stephen Hodge]
  • (Skt. akṣaya, aparyādatta, avyaya; akṣayatā, akṣayatva, akṣayin, akṣayya, akṣara, akṣīṇa, akṣeya, ananta, aniśānta, aniṣṭhā, apratipraśrabdha, amita, asecana, dhruva, viṣa-da; Tib. zad mi shes pa) [Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind]
  • Skt. asamāpta is transliterated as 阿娑摩補多. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1040

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1209a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1336b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5133

    Ding Fubao

    Kankoku bussho kaidai jiten 206

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0784

    Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 635

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4831c,2294a, (v.9-10)1073b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1708-3

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

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1336b (1336a→むじん無盡)

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    Entry created: 2001-10-24

    Updated: 2009-06-21