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通達位

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Basic Meaning: stage of insight

Senses:

  • Stage of thorough penetration (Skt. *prativedhâvasthā). The third among the five stages of Yogâcāra practice as outlined by Vasubandhu in his Triṃśikā. Penetration into reality after the completion of the prior stage of applied practices 加行位. Directly after the highest worldly wisdom has been produced, the uncontaminated wisdom 無漏智 is produced. This is also called the path of seeing (or 'seeing' ) 見道 in Abhidharma Buddhism. In this stage, which is reached after one asaṃkhyeya-kalpa 阿僧祇劫 of practice, the bodhisattva gains a limited understanding of the twin doctrines of the nonexistence of a self in either the person 人無我 or phenomena 法無我. The bodhisattva gains direct intuition into the non-duality of phenomena—the principle that both grasper 能取 and grasped 所取 are dependently arisen and empty of intrinsic nature 無自性. In Mahāyāna systems, it is usually considered to be at the time of entry into the first of the ten grounds 十地. 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.48b13〕 [Charles Muller, Billy Brewster; source(s): Ui, Hirakawa, Nakamura, JEBD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 749

    Bulgyo sajeon 887a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 321b/358

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 972b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4807

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1149

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3748b,1015c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 574-1-11*1234-1

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-08-23