凡夫

Readings

Pinyin: fánfū

Wade-Giles: fan-fu

Hangul: 범부

Korean MC: beombu

Korean MR: pŏmbu

Katakana: ボンブ

Hepburn: bonbu

phàm phu

worldling

• A fool, an ignorant person. An unenlightened person, immature being; someone who has no grasp of the Buddhist doctrine (Skt. bāla, Pāli bāla). A person at the mundane 世間 level of cognition and practice. Xuanzang used this term as a translation for pṛthag-jana, an alternative for 異生, referring to an ordinary unenlightened person who has not yet grasped the significance of the Four Noble Truths; the opposite of a sage (ārya) 聖者. It is also seen used in Yogâcāra texts to indicate a practitioner who has not yet entered the path of seeing 見道. Also translated as 愚異生, 凡下, and 凡庶, and transliterated as 波羅; 婆羅必栗託仡那; 婆羅必利他伽闍那, 婆羅必哩他仡那. See also 二凡夫. (Skt. *bāla-pṛthag-jana, anārya, avāryatva, avidus, avidvat, pārthag-jana, pṛthag-janatva, pṛthagjana-bhūta, bāla-jana, bāliśa, manuṣya, laukika) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, Hirakawa, Yokoi, Iwanami]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 990

Bulgyo sajeon, 264a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1168a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 753

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 32

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1269a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 730

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0178

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4706b,3984c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 53-3-8*1454-3-8*1640-3*1737-1-7

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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