依報

Readings

Pinyin: yībào

Wade-Giles: i-pao

Hangul: 의보

Korean MC: uibo

Korean MR: ŭibo

Katakana: エホウ

Hepburn: ehō

y báo

circumstantial retribution

• The circumstances we are born into, such as societal status and geographical location, based on the karma of prior lifetimes. As contrasted to the "direct reward" 正報 of the mind and body that one is born with. See 依正. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD]
• fruit de rétribution indirecte [resp. Paul Swanson]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 76

Bulgyo sajeon, 701a

Iwanami Bukkyō jiten , 75

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 50b/55

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 109

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 102b

Ding Fubao

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)289b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 134-3

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