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欲界

Readings

Pinyin: yùjiè

Wade-Giles: yü-chieh

Hangul: 욕계

Korean MC: yokgye

Korean MR: yokkye

Katakana: ヨクカイ

Hepburn: yokukai

dục giới

desire realm

One of the three realms of existence 三界, in which one's consciousness is subject to the desires for food, sex and sleep. (Skt. kāma-dhātu; Tib. 'dod pa'i khams). The realm, or realms, of purgatory, hungry spirits, animals, asuras, men, and the six heavens of desire. So called because the beings in these states are dominated by desire. The kāmadhātu realms are given as: 地居 Bhauma. 虛曇天 Antarikṣa. 四天王天 Caturmaharājakayika [i.e. the realms of 持國天 Dhṛtarāṣtra, east; 增長天 Virūḍhaka, south; 廣目天 Virūpākṣa, west; 多聞天 Vaiśravaṇa, north]. 忉利天 Trāyastriṃśa. 兜率天 Tuṣita. 化樂天 Nirmāṇarati. 他化自在天 Paranirmitavaśavarin. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
Belonging to the realm of desire (Skt. kāmâvacara; Tib. 'dod pa na spyod pa). A desirous state of mind. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
(Skt. adhara, kāma, kāma-divaukas, kāma-dhātu-ja, kāma-dhātv-āpta, kāma-pratisaṃyukta, kāma-bhava, kāmâpta, kāmâvacaraṃcittam, kāmâvacarin, kāmâvacareṣudeveṣu, kāmâvacāra, kāmin, sva-bhūmika; Tib. 'dod khams) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
Transliterated as 迦摩馱都. [resp. Charles Muller]
〔五分律 T 1421.22.107a10, 成唯識論 T 1585.31.17b13〕 [resp. Charles Muller]
terre pour l'ensemble du monde du désire (Skt. kāma-dhātu) [resp. Paul Swanson]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1083

Bulgyo sajeon, 635a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1253c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 818

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 302, 427

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 330a/366

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 824

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1396d, 1399b →よくかい

Fo Guang Dictionary, 4653

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0675

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4934b,1467b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 607-2-17*1768-2

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

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 611

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