平等

Readings

Pinyin: píngděng

Wade-Giles: p'ing-teng

Hangul: 평등

Korean MC: pyeongdeung

Korean MR: p'yŏngdŭng

Katakana: ビョウドウ

Hepburn: byōdō

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equality

• A reference to the lack of discrimination between things when they are seen from the standpoint of emptiness. Realm or view of nondiscrimination. The absolute reality that penetrates all manifest phenomena. Absolute reality (Skt. sama, samatā, sāmānya; Tib. snyoms pa). [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, YBh-Ind]
• Level, even. Peace, harmony, equanimity, everywhere the same, universal, without partiality; it especially refers to the Buddha in his universal; impartial, and equal attitude towards all beings. Harmony of the compositional elements of the body. Thus, transcendence of love, hate, good, evil, etc. [resp. Charles Muller]
• An equal person. Someone almost the same (Skt. sadrśa); equality between high and low (rank, etc.). [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. samāna; acyuta, aviśiṣṭa, aviśeṣa, aviṣama, asaṃbhinna, asaṃbheda, tulya, dharma-samatā, yuga-pad, yoga, sama-kārin, sama-cittatā, samatâśaya, samatva, samantânugata, sama-prastara, sama-prāpta, sama-sama, sama-svabhāva, samāpatti, samāpādana, samita, sādhāraṇa, sāmya) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 896

Bulgyo sajeon, 908a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1054c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 681

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 25, 202

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 5-P127

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1146d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1914

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0424

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4358c, (v.9-10)845b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1493-1

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

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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