四魔

Readings

Pinyin: sìmó

Wade-Giles: ssu-mo

Hangul: 사마

Korean MC: sama

Korean MR: sama

Katakana: シマ

Hepburn: shima

tứ ma

four demons

• Four Māra-enemies. The four kinds of māra (demons) that make trouble for sentient beings:
  1. Kleśa-māra 煩惱魔, the demon of ill desires that injure one's body and mind.
  2. Skandha-māra 陰魔 (or 蘊魔), the demon of aggregates. The five elemental aggregates of body, perception, conception, volition, and consciousness cause living beings many kinds of suffering.
  3. Mṛtya-māra 死魔, the demon of death, who cuts off the lives of all living beings.
  4. Devaputramāra 天子魔 (or 自在天魔). The demon named Paranirmita-vaśavartin 他化自在天, who is the king of the sixth heaven in the world of desire and who tries to prevent living beings from doing good. 〔佛地經論 T 1530.26.292b07; 瑜伽論 T 1579.30.776b18〕
  (Skt. catur-māra, catvāro mārāḥ; cattāro mārā) 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.447c17〕 〔十住心論; 奄羅記; 沙石集; 拾遺古德傳〕 Also written 四種魔 and 四魔怨. See also 五魔. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD, Hirakawa, Yokoi, Iwanami]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 421

Bulgyo sajeon, 360a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 463a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 374

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 279b/310

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 645

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 532a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1854

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0283

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)1997a,4720b, (v.9-10)909b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 759-3*1642-3

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa), {Digital Version}

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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