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異生性

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Basic Meaning: ordinariness

Senses:

  • The nature of ordinary people, worldlings, same as 凡夫性 (異生 means ordinary person, or worldling). The situation of regular people being afflicted, and incapable of attaining liberation. Thus, in Yogâcāra, a term referring to the seeds of affliction. From the Yogâcāra five-natures perspective 五性各別, in the case of those of bodhisattva nature and undetermined nature, this tendency is based on the seeds of the afflictive hindrances 煩惱障 and cognitive hindrances 所知障. The Kanjin kakumu shō says that it is based on the seeds of conceptual errors 見惑 in the three realms. One of the twenty-four factors not associated with mind 心不相應行法. From the first of the ten bodhisattva grounds 十地, the adept practitioner cuts off the seeds of the deluded view of the three worlds, and possesses the undefiled saintly nature. Nonetheless, when a sage gives rise to the worldly mind and it becomes manifest, it is not different from the mind of an ordinary person; yet the worldling differs from the sage in that he possesses the seeds of deluded view. This 'worldling-nature' is something bound to transmigration and provisionally based on the seeds of defilement (Skt. pṛthag-janatva). 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.5b6〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Hirakawa]
  • In Sarvâstivāda 有部 more simply a reference to the inability to attain liberation. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • In Sautrāntika 經部, the special characteristic of the continuity of an essence that is unable to produce awakening. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 31

    Bulgyo sajeon 713a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 36d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5151

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0849

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)124a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 53-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2018-02-07