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病苦

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: suffering from illness

Senses:

  • Counted as one type of suffering in such categories as the four kinds of suffering 四苦, eight, 八苦, and ten kinds of suffering 十苦 (Skt. vyādhi-duḥkha; Pāli vyādhi-dukkha). The Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā-śāstra 大毘婆沙論 elaborates the varieties of suffering from sickness in terms of the categories imbalance within the four elements 四大. the Yogâcārabhūmi explains the suffering from sickness in five aspects:
    1. change and degradation of the physical nature 身性變壞
    2. suffering multiplied by worry 憂苦增長多倍
    3. unsatisfactory experience of desirable objects 於可意境不喜受用
    4. having undesirable objects forced on one 非其所欲之不可意境而強受用
    5. the ability of quickly debilitating the life force 能令命根速離壞
    There are additional explanations in other texts. 〔增一阿含經, 修行本起經, 摩訶僧祇律, 瑜伽論 T 1579.30.289b07〕 (Skt. roga, vyādhi, vyādhita, *glāna, sudāruṇa, roga-vyasana; Tib. na ba'i sdug bsngal, nad kyi sdug bsngal, nad kyis rgud pa) [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, FGD, Yokoi, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 897

    Bulgyo sajeon 292a

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 48

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1148b

    Fo Guang Shan Dictionary 4190

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0855

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4357b,1754a,4205b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 695-1-1*1492-3

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa) {Digital Version}

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    Entry created: 2006-04-23

    Updated: 2011-07-28