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異生

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: worldling

Senses:

  • An ordinary person; unenlightened by Buddhism; an unbeliever, childish, ignorant, foolish (Skt. pṛthag-jana; Tib. so so'i skye bo). M-W: 'ordinary professing Buddhist.' The ideograph 異 means to differ, or to vary. Therefore this term, which literally means 'different birth,' or 'different existence,' is explained as (a) the ordinary person 'differing' from the sage, or (b) the fact that an ordinary person, due to his/her good and evil acts, is reborn into various existences, such as heaven 天, hell 地獄, hungry ghost 餓鬼, etc. Syn. 凡夫 and 愚異生 (Skt. pṛthagjana-bhūta, pārthagjanika, bāla, anârya; bālapṛthagjana; Pāli puthujjana; Tib. so so skye bo). [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Iwanami, Hirakawa]
  • Worldly, profane. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 31

    Bulgyo sajeon 713a

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 26, 27

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 131b/144

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 36c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5151

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0849

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)120b,4706b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 53-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-04-25