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化地部

Readings

Pinyin: Huàdì bù

Wade-Giles: Hua-ti pu

Hangul: 화지부

Korean MC: Hwaji bu

Korean MR: Hwaji pu

Katakana: ケジブ

Hepburn: Keji bu

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Mahīśāsaka

The Mahīśāsaka school. An early Indian school that branched off from Sarvâstivāda 有部 about three hundred years after Śākyamuni's death. Their beliefs were close to the Mahāsāṃghikas 大衆部, especially regarding the point that past and future do not have true existence, only the present truly exists. This school is especially known in later Buddhist history for its influential vinaya text, the Five Part Vinaya 五分律, translated by Buddhajīva CE 423–424. The name of this school is also rendered into Chinese as 彌沙塞部, 彌喜捨娑阿, 正地部 and abbreviated as 化地. The name of 不可棄部 derives from the founder's name, Āvantaka 不可棄. (Pāli Mahiṃsāsaka; Tib. sa ston pa'i sde) 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.15a23〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 222

Bulgyo sajeon, 965a

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 169b/186

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 291c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1323

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0213

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 395-3

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