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生 [py] sheng1 [wg] sheng [ko] saeng [ja] ショウ shou ||| (1) To produce, to bring forth, to beget. To be born. (2) Life, living. [Buddhism] (jaati); 'arising', 'production.' Coming into existence. In Yogaacaara and Abhidharmako`sa theory, the arising of conditioned elements (dharmas). Also birth, or the life of sentient beings. One of the four aspects 四相 of existence (arising, abiding, changing, and extinction). Also one of the twelve limbs of conditioned origination 十二因縁. (3) One of the four basic forms of suffering 四苦. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

生上 [py] sheng1shang4 [wg] sheng-shang [ko] saengsang [ja] ショウジョウ shoujou ||| To be reborn into a higher level of existence. 〔二障義 HPC 1.795b23〕 [Credit] acm(entry)

生住異滅 [py] sheng1zhu4yi4mie4 [wg] sheng-chu-i-mieh [ko] saengjuimyôl [ja] ショウジュウイメツ shoujuuimetsu ||| The arising, abiding, changing and extinction of all existences. Also called the four aspects (四相) of arising, abiding...etc. Also called 'four characteristics', 'four conditioned aspects.' For the Sarvaastivaadins, these aspects of arising, abiding, changing and ceasing are said to be the nature of real existence. For the Sautraantikas and so forth, these are not considered to be real, but four provisionally established characteristics. Consciousness-only theory is also opposed to the Sarvaastivaadin interpretation. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

生佛 [py] sheng1fo2 [wg] shengfo [ko] saengbul [ja] ショウブツ shoubutsu ||| Sentient being and Buddha. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

生得 [py] sheng1de2 [wg] sheng-te [ko] saengdûk [ja] ショウトク shoutoku ||| Obtained in the process of arising. Those qualities which are inborn (utpatti-laabhika). The opposite of this is 作得, which means "obtained by effort." 〔二障義 HPC 1.801a〕 [Dictionary References] naka709c [Credit] acm(entry)

生業 [py] sheng1ye4 [wg] sheng-yeh [ko] saeng'ôp [ja] ショウゴウ shougou ||| (1) The work that one does to make a living; one's livelihood. (karman) (2) The karma that is produced from desire, as contrasted with the karma that is produced from ignorance 引業. 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.612b〕 [Dictionary References] zgd542b naka706d [Credit] acm(entry)

生死 [py] sheng1si3 [wg] sheng-shih [ko] saengsa [ja] ショウシ shouji ||| Skt. jaraa-marana, sa.msaara, janana-marana; life-and-death. An expression of the vicissitudes of the transmigration in the world of delusion. Also, a synonym for lunhui 輪廻 'transmigration.' An allusion to suffering and delusion. [Credit] acm(entry) ps(py)

生法 [py] sheng1fa3 [wg] sheng-fa [ko] saengbôp [ja] ショウボウ shoubou ||| The dharma of life. That quality which gives life to things. (prasava-dharma) (2) The dharma of selfhood. 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.〕 [Dictionary References] naka710b [Credit] acm(entry)

生無性 [py] sheng1 wu2xing4 [wg] sheng wu-hsing [ko] saeng musông [ja] ショウムショウ shou mushou ||| One of the 'three non-natures' (三無性) of the Faxiang school. Life, and existence have no self-nature. Life appears dependent upon causes and conditions and its existence is provisional. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

生生世世 [py] sheng1sheng1 shi4shi4 [wg] sheng-sheng shih-shih [ko] saengsaengsese [ja] ショウショウセゼ shoushouseze ||| Continous life, death and rebirth through numberless eons of time. [Dictionary References] naka708d [Credit] acm(entry)

生縁 [py] sheng1yuan4 [wg] sheng-yüan [ko] saengyôn [ja] ショウエン shouen ||| (1) The various causes which contribute to a thing's coming into being. (2) Dependent co-arising → 縁起.　(pratiitya-samutpaada) (3) One of the "three barriers" → 三關. (4) Inagaki has "Native place; one's original state of Buddhahood." [Dictionary References] naka706b ZGD530a Ina360 [Credit] acm(entry)

生處 [py] sheng1chu4 [wg] sheng-ch'u [ko] saengch'ô [ja] ショウショ shousho ||| (upapatti-sthaana). The locus for the arising of something. The place where something was once (formerly) produced. Place of birth. 〔二障義 HPC 1.796b4〕 [Dictionary References] naka708d [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

生貴住 [py] sheng1gui4zhu4 [wg] sheng-kuei-chu [ko] saenggwiju [ja] ショウキジュウ shoukijuu ||| The fourth of the Ten Abidings (十住) - The "abiding of producing virtues." The stage of dwelling peaceably in the principle of "no-self' where the seed natures are purified. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

生起 [py] sheng1qi3 [wg] sheng-ch'i [ko] saenggi [ja] ショウキ shouki ||| (1) The arising, production, coming into being of things. (utpaada, upagama) (2) A situation that is arising. [Dictionary References] naka706c [Credit] acm(entry)

生起相違 [py] sheng1qi3xiang1wei2 [wg] sheng-ch'i-hsiang-wei [ko] saenggisangwi [ja] ショウキソウイ shoukisoui ||| Contradictions in production, the third of the six kinds of contradictory causes taught in the Yogaacaarabhuumi-`saastra. The conflict that appears when the necessary preconditions for the production of certain object events are not present.〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.501b〕 [Credit] acm(entry)

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