精進

Readings

Pinyin: jīngjìn

Wade-Giles: ching-chin

Hangul: 정진

Korean MC: jeongjin

Korean MR: chŏngjin

Katakana: ショウジン

Hepburn: shōjin

tinh tiến

effort

• Exertion, vigor, diligence, assiduity; zeal (Skt. vīrya; Tib. brtson 'grus). The mental operation of continuously cultivating good dharmas and cutting off evil; pure or unadulterated progress, i.e. 勤; zealous, courageously progressing in the good and eliminating the evil. It implies strenuous and sustained effort to overcome laziness, as well as the right endeavor to attain dhyāna, as well as strength of character and the persistent effort for the well-being of others. Right effort known as vīryabala 精進力 is required to overcome laziness and deviation from meditative concentration. One of the six perfections 六波羅蜜. One of the ten good mental condition dharmas 大善地法 explained in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya, one of the eleven good mental function factors 十一善 in the doctrine of the Yogâcāra school 百法. One of the five spiritual faculties 五根 (indriya), one of the five powers 五力 (bala), one of the seven factors of enlightenment (bodhyaṅga) 七菩提分 and is identical with right effort 正精進 of the Noble Eightfold Path. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Stephen Hodge, JEBD, Yokoi]
• See also 五種精進. [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. vyāyāma, abhiyukta; anuyukta, ārabdha-vīrya, utsaha, *utsāha, utsāhin, udyukta, kalyāṇaka, dhairya, nirata, parākrama, prayoga, vīra, vīryatā, rīryavat, vīryârambha, vyāyacchita, śura, śauṭīryavat; Pāli viriya; Tib. brtson 'grus) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 562

Bulgyo sajeon, 783a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 561b

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 430

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 161, 332

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), &tdash;/326

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 686

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 731c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 5883

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0924

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2629b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 782-3, 594-2

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

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 260

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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