善人

Readings

Pinyin: shànrén

Wade-Giles: shan-jen

Hangul: 선인

Korean MC: seon-in

Korean MR: sŏn'in

Katakana: ゼンジン

Hepburn: zenjin

thiện nhân

a good person

• A good man, especially one who believes in Buddhist ideas of causality and lives a good life. When the rebirth into a human body is noted as one of the six (or five) destinies 六道, it is usually meant as indicative of a predominance of good karma, and is thus, relative to the three lower rebirths, a positive reward.〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.381c12〕 (Skt. sat-puruṣa; vidvas, *saj-jana, sat, satya-jana, susattva; Tib. skyes bu dam pa) [resp. Charles Muller; ref. Hirakaw; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, YBh-Ind]
• The Samantapāsādikā says: "Question: What is meant by good people?" Answer: [All those] from buddhas, solitary realizers, and disciples, to laypeople who have attained the path of stream-winner are called good people. 〔善見律毘婆沙 T 1462.24.704a28〕[resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 851c

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0259

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1067-1

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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