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身界

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: body as cognitive factor

Senses:

  • The body taken as one of the eighteen factors of cognition 十八界. See 身體. (Skt kayendriya, kāya-dhātu, śarīra-dhātu, śarīra-dhātuka, kaya, dhātu: Tib. lus kyi dbang po、lus kyi khams). 〔瑜伽師地論 T 1579.30.434a06〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • The remains, or ashes, of the Buddhaʼs body 佛舍利. In this case the character 界 takes the sense of 分, and thus the term is synonymous with 身分. [Charles Muller; source(s): Oda]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 589

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 770d

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1129

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2029a,2356a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 862-3

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

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    Entry created: 2005-12-15

    Updated: 2010-05-08