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體正

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Basic Meaning: essential correctness

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  • Or 'essentially corrective.' A term used by some Three-Treatise school 三論宗 masters to define the ultimate, nondualistic correctness which is beyond concepts. In particular, the essential correctness denies both the absolute truth 眞諦 and the conventional truth 俗諦. Essential correctness and functional correctness 用正 are in an essence-function 體用 relationship. See: Alan Fox, “Self-reflection in the Sanlun Tradition: Mādhyamika as the 'Deconstructive Conscience' of Buddhism”, in Journal of Chinese Philosophy V. 19 (1992) pp. 1–24. 〔大乘三論大義鈔T 2296.70.122c18; 三論玄義T 1852.45.7b9〕 [Stephane Aubry]
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    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.9-10)751c

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    Entry created: 2008-08-26