軌持

Readings

Pinyin: guǐchí

Wade-Giles: kuei-ch'ih

Hangul: 궤지

Korean MC: gweji

Korean MR: kweji

Katakana: キジ

Hepburn: kiji

quỹ trì

rules

• Principles; standards. A way of explaining the meaning of the Buddhist term dharma 法. A rule and its observance, interpreted as to know the rule or doctrine and hold it without confusion with other rules or doctrines. In explaining the usage of the term in the early section of the Cheng weishi lun, Kuiji breaks it into two parts, with 軌 meaning something like "exemplar" or "pattern" and 持 meaning "maintain." He says: ""Exemplar" refers to existent dharmas; "maintaining" refers also to nonexistent dharmas." 有義軌唯有法。持亦通無。〔成唯識論演祕 T 1833.43.819c03〕 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.1a23〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 165

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 206a

Ding Fubao

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 244-1

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