無明住地

Readings

Pinyin: wúmíng zhùdì

Wade-Giles: wu-ming chu-ti

Hangul: 무명주지

Korean MC: mumyeong juji

Korean MR: mumyŏng chuji

Katakana: ムミョウジュウジ

Hepburn: mumyō jūji

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nescience entrenchments

• Innate nescience; latent nescience; nescience as entrenchment; entrenched nescience. Nescience in its latent aspect as something innate and deeply embedded in the consciousness, which is difficult to remove, and which serves as the basis for the production of afflictions (Skt. avidyāvāsa-bhūmi).1 Discussed at length in the Śrīmālā-sūtra 勝鬘經, the Benye jing 本業經, and Wonhyo's Ijang ui 二障義, where it is explained as being a broad category under which the four distinct entrenchments 四住地 are subsumed. When the nescience entrenchment is added as a separate item to the previous four, they are spoken of as the five entrenchments 五住地惑. 〔二障義 HBJ 1.801a-c〕;〔勝鬘經 T 353.12.220a6; 本業經 T 1485.24.1021c-1022a〕

  In Huiyuan's commentary on the Awakening of Mahāyāna Faith, this entrenchment is equated with the cognitive hindrances 智障 (T 1843.44.188c5). The Compendium of Buddhist Translated Terms says: "innate, nonobstructing, indeterminate nescience that does not yet have the aspects of attachment and negativity is called innate nescience." 根本無明無覆無記 未有愛惡相 名無明住地 〔翻譯名義集 T 2131.54.1143c21〕

  The Benye jing interprets somewhat differently, stating that the entrenchment of nescience is present before the other four. "Since, based on these four kinds of entrenchments, one gives rise to all afflictions, this constitutes the initial arising of the four entrenchments. Prior to these four entrenchments, there is no phenomenon that is arisen; therefore it is called the beginningless entrenched nescience." 〔菩薩瓔珞本業經 T 1485.24.1021a5〕 Also written 無明地.

  [resp. Charles Muller, Michael Radich; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1045

Bulgyo sajeon, 219a

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1347c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 5096

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0766

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)1255a,1379b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 553-1-14*1718-1

Notes

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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