There are 8 total results for your 本覺 search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
本覺 本觉 see styles |
běn jué ben3 jue2 pen chüeh hongaku |
Original bodhi, i. e. 'enlightenment', awareness, knowledge, or wisdom, as contrasted with 始覺 initial knowledge, that is 'enlightenment a priori is contrasted with enlightenment a posteriori'. Suzuki, Awakening of Faith, P. 62. The reference is to universal mind 衆生之心體, which is conceived as pure and intelligent, with 始覺 as active intelligence. It is considered as the Buddha-dharmakāya, or as it might perhaps be termed, the fundamental mind. Nevertheless in action from the first it was influenced by its antithesis 無明 ignorance, the opposite of awareness, or true knowledge. See 起信論 and 仁王經,中. There are two kinds of 本覺, one which is unconditioned, and never sullied by ignorance and delusion, the other which is conditioned and subject to ignorance. In original enlightenment is implied potential enlightenment in each being. |
本覺心 本觉心 see styles |
běn jué xīn ben3 jue2 xin1 pen chüeh hsin hongaku shin |
intrinsically enlightened mind |
本覺道 本觉道 see styles |
běn jué dào ben3 jue2 dao4 pen chüeh tao hongaku dō |
intrinsically enlightened character of the original mind |
本覺眞如 本觉眞如 see styles |
běn jué zhēn rú ben3 jue2 zhen1 ru2 pen chüeh chen ju hongaku shinnyo |
The 眞如, i. e. bhūtatathatā, is the 體 corpus, or embodiment; the 本覺 is the 相 or form of primal intelligence; the former is the 理 or fundamental truth, the latter is the 智, i. e. the knowledge or wisdom of it; together they form the whole embodiment of the buddha-dharmakāya. |
山本覺馬 see styles |
yamamotokakuma やまもとかくま |
(person) Yamamoto Kakuma |
性淨本覺 性淨本觉 see styles |
xìng jìng běn jué xing4 jing4 ben3 jue2 hsing ching pen chüeh shōjō hongaku |
naturally pure intrinsic enlightenment |
無本覺心 无本觉心 see styles |
wú běn jué xīn wu2 ben3 jue2 xin1 wu pen chüeh hsin Muhon Kakushin |
Muhon Kakushin |
隨染本覺 随染本觉 see styles |
suí rǎn běn jué sui2 ran3 ben3 jue2 sui jan pen chüeh zuizen hongaku |
originally enlightened mind that is tending toward defilement |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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