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There are 7 total results for your 界外 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

界外

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jiè wài
    jie4 wai4
chieh wai
 kaige
    かいげ
(place-name, surname) Kaige
The pure realms, or illimitable 'spiritual' regions of the Buddhas outside the three limitations of desire, form, and formlessness.

界外惑

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jiè wài huò
    jie4 wai4 huo4
chieh wai huo
 kaige waku
mental disturbances that lie beyond the (three) realms

界外教

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jiè wài jiào
    jie4 wai4 jiao4
chieh wai chiao
 kaige (no) kyō
The two schools of 界外事教 and 界外理教.

界外事教

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jiè wài shì jiào
    jie4 wai4 shi4 jiao4
chieh wai shih chiao
 kaige (no) jikyō
Tiantai's term for the 別教, which concerned itself with the practice of the bodhisattva life, a life not limited to three regions of reincarnation, but which had not attained to its fundamental principles.

界外理教

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jiè wài lǐ jiào
    jie4 wai4 li3 jiao4
chieh wai li chiao
 kaige (no) rikyō
Tiantai's 圓教 the school of the complete Buddha-teaching, i. e. that of Tiantai, which concerns itself with the śūnya doctrines of the infinite, beyond the realms of reincarnation, and the development of the bodhisattva in those realms.

古山界外

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 furuyamakaige
    ふるやまかいげ
(place-name) Furuyamakaige

大界外相

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dà jiè wài xiàng
    da4 jie4 wai4 xiang4
ta chieh wai hsiang
 daikai gesō
Four characters often placed on the boundary stones of monasterial grounds.
This page contains 7 results for "界外" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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