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世親

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Basic Meaning: Vasubandhu

Senses:

  • Also translated as 天親. Along with his (half-?)brother Asaṅga 無著, one of the main formulators of the Indian Yogâcāra school 瑜伽行派, and one of the most influential figures in the entire history of Buddhism. Born in Puruṣapura of Gandhāra in the fifth century (Takakusu suggests 420–500, Peri puts his death not later than 350), he was at first an Abhidharmist and wrote the massive Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya 倶舍論, which is only one of his thirty-six works. He later converted to Mahāyāna and composed many other voluminous treatises. Most influential in the East Asian tradition was probably his Triṃśikā (Thirty Verses on Consciousness-only 唯識三十頌), but he also wrote a large number of other works, including: a commentary to the Mahāyāna-saṃgrāha 攝大乘論釋, the Daśabhūmika-bhāṣya 十地經論, Catuḥśataka-śāstra 廣百論, Mahāyāna śatadharmā-prakāśamukha śāstra 大乘百法明門論, and Amitāyus sutrôpadeśa 無量壽經優波提舍. He is also considered as the twenty-first of the twenty-eight patriarchs 二十八祖 of the Chan tradition. Transliterated as 婆槃豆, 婆修盤頭, 伐蘇畔度; 婆藪槃豆, 婆修槃豆, 婆修槃陀. 婆藪槃陀; 伐蘇畔徒; 筏蘇畔徒, or 筏蘇盤豆 (Skt. loka-nātha). [Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD, Soothill, Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 619

    Bulgyo sajeon 473a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 658c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 487

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 231

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 265a/292

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1529

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0071

    Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 372

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4437b, (v.9-10)508c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1027-3

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    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2010-06-20