十力

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Pinyin: shílì

Wade-Giles: shih-li

Hangul: 십력

Korean MC: simnyeok

Korean MR: simnyŏk

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Hepburn: jūriki

thập lực

ten powers

• Also expressed as 如來十力 and 十種力 (Skt. daśa-balāni). Ten kinds of powers of awareness specially possessed by the Buddha. In the *Saṃyuktâbhidharma-hṛdaya-śāstra 雜阿毘曇心論 (T 1552), they are defined as:
  1. distinguishing right and wrong; knowing what is right or wrong in every condition 處非處智力;
  2. knowing one's own karma, as well as knowing the karma of every being, past, present, and future 自業智力; or knowing karmic maturation 業異熟智力;
  3. knowledge of all forms of meditation; knowing all stages of dhyāna liberation, and samādhi 靜慮解脫等持等至智力;
  4. knowledge of the relative capacities of sentient beings 根勝劣智力 (or 根上下智力);
  5. knowledge of what sentient beings have devoted interest in; the desires, or moral direction of every being 種種勝解智力;
  6. knowledge of the varieties of causal factors (seeds 種子) 種種界智力;
  7. knowledge of the gamut of courses and paths pursued by sentient beings 遍趣行智力;
  8. knowledge of remembrance of past lives 宿住隨念智力;
  9. knowledge of where people will die and be reborn 死生智力;
  10. knowledge of the methods of destroying all contamination. 漏盡智力.
  In the Sutra of Brahmā's Net the ten powers are:
  • power of the knowledge of appropriateness 處力
  • knowledge power 智力
  • power of [knowledge of] fruits desired 果欲力
  • power of [knowledge of] natures 性力
  • power of the [knowledge of] faculties 根力
  • power of [knowledge of] determination 定力
  • power of [knowledge of] the path 道力
  • power of the divine eye 天眼力
  • power of [knowledge of] previous lives 宿世力
  • power of [the knowledge of] liberation 解脫力. 〔梵網經 T 1484.24.1001b27〕
  [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Yokoi, Soothill, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]
• The ten powers of a bodhisattva.
  1. devotion to the Buddha's teaching and no attachment to anything,
  2. increasing one's devotion,
  3. the expedient ability to instruct people and alter their conduct,
  4. understanding what people think,
  5. satisfying people with what they want,
  6. no cessation of exertion,
  7. including all vehicles without abandoning the Mahāyāna,
  8. the mysterious power of showing the appearance of the Buddhas in every world in each pore of the body,
  9. making people turn toward the Buddha's teachings and leading them to perfection, and
  10. satisfying all kinds of people with even a single phrase.
  There is another set of ten bodhisattva powers listed in the Shoulengyan sanmei jing 〔首楞嚴三昧經 T 642.15.643a25〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Yokoi]
• One who possesses the ten powers. [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. bala-prāpta, daśa-tathāgata-bala; Pāli dasa-balāni; Tib. stobs bcu) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
• Also included as part of the 140 distinctive characteristics of a tathāgata 百四十不共佛法. [resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 516

Bulgyo sajeon, 525a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 497a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 400

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 153a/169

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 311

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 1-P82, 9-P151

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 661c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 361

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0216

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.9-10)380b,1150b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 955-1*1783-3

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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