DDB: 布薩 |

布薩

Readings

Pinyin: bùsà

Wade-Giles: pu-sa

Hangul: 포살

Korean MC: posal

Korean MR: p'osal

Katakana: フサツ

Hepburn: fusatsu

bố tát

A precepts meeting. I.e. 六齋日, the six days of every month when the Prātimokṣa-sūtra is recited, monks make confession of their sins, and laymen take upon themselves the vows, i.e. the eight precepts 八戒. This takes place on the 8th, 14th, 15th, 23rd, 29th and 30th of the lunar calendar. Translated into Chinese as 說戒, 淨住, 善宿, or 長養, meaning abiding in retreat for spiritual refreshment. Also transliterated as 布沙他, 布灑他, and 褒沙陀. See also 布薩犍度 which the Vinaya uses for the meeting place; pratideśanīya 鉢囉帝提舍耶寐 is self-examination and public confession during the fast. It is also an old Indian fast. (Skt. upavasatha, upavāsa; uposatha; *trapuṣa, *trapusa, poṣadha-pratisaṃyukta, poṣadhika, saṃvāsa; Pāli uposatha). 〔四分律 T 1428.22.626a7, 梵網經 T 1484.24.1005b19, 倶舍論 T 1559.29.222b16〕 [resp. Charles Muller, B. Oroval; source(s): JEBD, Nakamura, Hirakawa, Yokoi, Iwanami]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 909

Bulgyo sajeon, 910a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1071c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 688

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 65a/71

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 135

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1175b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1910

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0417

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4410a,1494a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1521-1

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 187

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