中觀

Readings

Pinyin: zhōngguān

Wade-Giles: chung-kuan

Hangul: 중관

Korean MC: junggwan

Korean MR: chunggwan

Katakana: チュウカン

Katakana: チュウガン

Hepburn: chūkan

Hepburn: chū gan

contemplation of the middle way

• One of the three types of observation 三觀 taught in Tiantai, but contemplation of the middle way is found in the texts of various schools, including Yogâcāra 唯識 and Madhyamaka 三論宗. Although the precise sense of the term is governed by the context of the doctrinal system in which it is used, the middle view generally refers to an observation that avoids the establishment and maintenance of reified concepts, such as "existence," 有  "emptiness," 空 etc. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 735

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 735

Bulgyo sajeon, 806a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 566

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 274

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), &tdash;/36

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 958a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1036

Ding Fubao

Kankoku bussho kaidai jiten, 167

Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), 449

Han'guk bulgyo inmyeong sajeon (Yi), 275

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2017a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 613-2-3*1205-2

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 111

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