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Basic Meaning: scripture

Senses:

  • Etymologically, a warp, that which runs lengthwise, thus threads, or threaded together, which leads to the meaning of laws, canons, classics. Thus, a book; a scripture, a classic. The recorded words of a sage. This becomes the primary Chinese translation of the Sanskrit term sūtra (Pāli sutta; Tib. mdo sde). Also called 契經 and 經本. the sutras in the Tripiṭaka are the sermons attributed to the Buddha; the other two divisions are 律 the Vinaya, and 論 the śāstras, or Abhidharma; cf. 三藏. Sutras usually begin with the words 如是我聞 'Thus did I hear,' indicating that it contains the words of Śākyamuni. Transliterated as 修多羅 and 素呾纜. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]
  • Sūtra is also one of the twelve traditional genre divisions of the Buddhist canon 十二部經. [Charles Muller]
  • Related to the original meaning of vertical threads of a textile, also simply vertical. [Charles Muller]
  • Way, path, principle, thread. [Charles Muller]
  • To pass through or by, past; to manage, regulate. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • (Skt. sūtrânta, śāsana; atyayena, āgama, uddeśa, kaṇṭhôkti, kathā, grantha, deśana, deśanā, dharma, dharma-paryāya, nirdeśa, parāvṛtta, parivṛtta, paryāya, pustaka, pravacana, *vacana, vākya, vi-ṣṭhā; supūrita, sūtra-pada, sūtra-pāṭha) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 183

    Bulgyo sajeon 34a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 214a

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 169

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 189b/211

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 431, 713

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 234a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5548

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0932

    Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) ③490d

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 248-1

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

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 262

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2010-06-01