變易生死

Readings

Pinyin: biànyì shēngsǐ

Wade-Giles: pien-i sheng-ssu

Hangul: 변역생사

Korean MC: byeonyeok saengsa

Korean MR: pyŏnyŏk saengsa

Katakana: ヘンニャクショウジ

Hepburn: hennyaku shōji

miraculous birth-and-death

• Inconceivable saṃsāra. (Skt. parinamiki-jarā-maraṇa, pāriṇāmikī cyutiḥ) The cyclic existence experienced by enlightened bodhisattvas, as opposed to the "delimited saṃsāra" (分段生死) experienced by unenlightened people. Thus, it is one of the two kinds of cyclic existence 二種生死. It is the cyclic existence that is undergone from the time of being freed from the body of transmigration through the triple realm up to the attainment of Buddhahood. With the cognitive hindrances 所知障 as ancillary condition, one experiences the subtle marvelous karmic effects of one's uncontaminated 無漏 great compassionate vow. The conversion of the coarse body of fragmentary cyclic existence into this subtle, limitless body is called miraculous transformation 變易.

  the Cheng weishi lun says: "...the second is birth and death by inconceivable transformation, that is, specially powerful and subtle results as retribution that are instigated by pure, discriminating action, assisted by the power of conditioning by the cognitive hindrances. It is named "transformation" because due to the power of compassionate vows, transformed bodies and lives are devoid of specific limitations. It is called "inconceivable" because its marvelous functioning, directly assisted and instigated by pure samādhi and vows, is impossible to fathom." (adapted from Frances Cook's translation in the Numata Series, Three Texts on Consciousness-only, p. 276) More fully written as 不思議變易生死. 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.45a17〕

  [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,JEBD, Yokoi, Hirakawa,Iwanami]
• renaissances de transformation. Les bodhisattva vont donc participer au cycle des naissances et des morts, mais pas dans les mêmes conditions que les êtres à sauver, qui sont eux soumis aux renaissances délimitées (bundan shōji). Ce saṃsāra transformationnel propre aux bodhisattva ne comporte plus pour le corps qu'ils revêtent les limitations d'âge, de sexe, de santé, etc., tout est librement modifiable pour le bien des êtres. [resp. Paul Swanson]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 942

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1117a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 716

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 67, 102

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 104a/115

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 214

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1216a, 1216b →へんにゃくしょうじ

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6916

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1102

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4539b,1900c,2618b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 714-1-10*1574-2

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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