五衆

Readings

Pinyin: wǔzhòng

Wade-Giles: wu-chung

Hangul: 오중

Korean MC: ojung

Korean MR: ojung

Katakana: ゴシュウ

Hepburn: goshū

ngũ chúng

five skandhas

• Kumārajīva's Chinese translation of the term 五蘊. 〔法華經 T 262.9.12a19〕 (Tib. 'khor rnam pa lnga; Skt. pañca-skandha) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind, JEBD]
• The five kinds of disciples of the Buddha:
  1. bhikṣu, 比丘 (Pāli bhikkhu);
  2. bhikṣuṇī 比丘尼 (Pāli bhikkhunī),
  3. śikṣamāṇā 式叉摩那 (Pāli sikkhamānā),
  4. śrāmaṇera 沙彌 (Pāli sāmaṇera),
  5. śrāmaṇerikā 沙彌尼 (Pāli sāmaṇerī).
  Among these, the bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs accept the full set of precepts; śikṣamāṇās receive the six rules 六法 and the śrāmaṇeras and śrāmaṇerikās receive the ten precepts 十戒. 〔大智度論(卷十)〕 [resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 272

Bulgyo sajeon, 624a

Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata), 110

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 344a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 271

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 88b/97

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 174

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 363d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1152

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0089

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)1207b,1094c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 531-3

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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