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資糧位

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Basic Meaning: stage of accumulation

Senses:

  • Also rendered as stage of equipment and stage of provisioning. According to Abhidharma/Yogâcāra path theory, the stage where the 'raw materials' of merit and wisdom are gathered for practice. This rank includes the first thirty stages of bodhisattva practice, and is said to require one incalculable eon of practice. It is a preparatory stage for later, more subtle practice. As one of the five stages 五位, it precedes the stage of applied practice 加行位. According to the Cheng weishi lun, during this stage the practitioner cultivates the faculties conducive to liberation 順解脫分—namely, the five cultivatable spiritual faculties of faith 信根, perseverance or effort 勤根, mindful recollection 念根, concentration 定根, and wisdom 慧根. Also written 資糧道 (Skt. saṃbhārâvasthā). 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.41a19〕 [Charles Muller, Billy Brewster; source(s): Ui, Hirakawa, Nakamura, JEBD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 431

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 288a/319

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 547d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5612

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1112

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2856b,1015c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 578-1-7*858-1

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2018-11-09