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理趣

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Basic Meaning: maxim

Senses:

  • Amoghavajra 不空 renders the Sanskrit term naya into this in the Puxian Pusa xingyuan zan 普賢菩薩行願讚 (cakranayaṁ parivartayamāno = 當轉理趣妙輪時). Used in conjunction with cakra (wheel) 妙輪 in forming the expression “turning the wheel of the maxim” 轉理趣妙輪, another way of describing the turning of the Dharma Wheel 法輪. [Jeffrey Kotyk; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • Line of reasoning. 〔辯中邊論 T 1600.31.464c6〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): T1600]
  • A method, process, way of being (Skt. prakāra; Tib. tshul). 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.539c22〕 (Skt. nyāya, mata, yukti, prasādika) [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,Yokoi, Stephen Hodge,Hirakawa]
  • The main meaning. [Charles Muller; source(s): Yokoi]
  • The allure of reality. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1095

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1265c

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 540

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1413a

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0827

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

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2018-01-10