大機

Readings

Pinyin: dàjī

Wade-Giles: ta-chi

Hangul: 대기

Korean MC: daegi

Korean MR: taegi

Katakana: ダイキ

Hepburn: daiki

đại cơ

great capacity

• Capacity for the Mahāyāna. A person who has received the supreme teaching of the great vehicle and embodies its resultant excellent abilities. A person who has accepted the great vehicle teaching and possesses the spiritual qualities resultant of bodhisattva practices. The great opportunity, or Mahāyāna method of becoming a bodhisattva. 〔翻譯名義集 T 2131.54.1059a12〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Yokoi, JEBD]
• Great functioning. The great functioning of an impeccable Chan teacher; the methods s/he uses to guide practitioners. [resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 692

Bulgyo sajeon, 146a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 788d

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 41

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 40b/44

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 79

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 914d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 886

Ding Fubao

Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), 407

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1128-2

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