REALM    境界

ABSTRACT PLACE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
境界 境域 化境 境地 境 程度 地步 意境 意象 佳境 畫境 夢境 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • PLACE　PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 4/0, child: 39)
  • PART　OBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 8)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)

Words (11 items)

境  jìng OC: kraŋʔ MC: kɣaŋ 30 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nregion; territory
  • nabbuddhistBUDDH: abstract region, sphere; context; circumstances (> external mental stimulus > external stimulus); also: realm of the mind > objects of perception; skr. viṣaya (see 六境 ) (the term has a very wide range of meanings; see DDBhttp://www.buddhism-dict.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?58.xml+id('b5883')It became a central term in the 臨濟錄, see Anderl 2007: Informal Notes on the Term "jing" 境 in the Linji lu 臨濟錄. In: Wenxue yu zongjiao - Sun Changwu jiaoshou qishi huadan jinian wenji 文學與宗教 - 孫昌武教授七十華誕紀念文集 [Literature and Religion - Festschrift on the Occasion of Prof. Sun Changwu's 70th Birthday]. Beijing: Zongjiao wenhua chubanshe 宗教文化出板社 2007. ISBN 9787801239020. pp. 391-423
  • nabfigurativespiritual horizon (cf. modern 境界)
  • nadNregion; territoryTWH
法界  fǎ jiè OC: pab kreeds MC: pi̯ɐp kɣɛi 6 Attributions

    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: Dharma-realm, Dharma-sphere (in Mahāyāna Buddhism this refers to the basic principle of the Buddhist teaching and the orign of everything; in this way the whole universe is regarded as a manifestaion of Suchness or True Thusness, zhēnrú 真如, rúrú 如如; it is sometimes also referred to as the 'Reality Realm'); skr. dharma-dhātu
境界  jìng jiè OC: kraŋʔ kreeds MC: kɣaŋ kɣɛi 6 Attributions
  • Digital Dictionary of Buddhism ( MULLER) p.

    "(1) Sphere, state, viewpoint (visaya, gocara). (2) Object(s) perceived by the sensory and perceptive organs. The sphere of cognition. (visaya, jNNeya). (3) Sphere, realm, place. (4) Feeling, sensation, mood. Mental state. Condition, state, situation. (5) The resultant condition each being ends up in according to their actions: 'fruit,' 'reward,' '-hood.' (6) One's area of specialization; one's own limits."

  • 佛教語大辭典 Bukkyōgo daijiten Encyclopedic Dictionary of Buddhist Terms ( NAKAMURA) p. 238c

    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: realm, sphere
  • NPabfigurativeBUDDH: mental realm, sphere of comprehension; sphere of cognition (SANSKRIT visaya, jñeya) (sometimes: > mental capacity) spiritual horizon
色界  sè jiè OC: sqrɯɡ kreeds MC: ʂɨk kɣɛi 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: realm of form, the second of the three realms, sānjiè 三界 (in this realm the desires have been eliminated trough meditation, but the physical body is still remaining); SANSKRIT rūpa dhātu
淨土  jìng tǔ OC: skhreeŋ kh-laaʔ MC: dziɛŋ thuo̝ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistthe Pure Land (of Amithaba Buddha)
前境  qián jìng OC: dzeen kraŋʔ MC: dzen kɣaŋ 1 Attribution
  • 佛教語大辭典 Bukkyōgo daijiten Encyclopedic Dictionary of Buddhist Terms ( NAKAMURA) p. 844b

    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: "A manifest object (skr. avabhāsa). An object apparent to the mind." (MULLER)
地  dì OC: lils MC: di 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • nabfigurativemetaphysical realm (cf. Pure Land)
攀緣  pān yuán OC: phraan k-lon MC: phɣan jiɛn 0 Attributions
  • 佛教語大辭典 Bukkyōgo daijiten Encyclopedic Dictionary of Buddhist Terms ( NAKAMURA) p. 1116d

    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: what one mentally relies on > the cognized object
第四禪  dì sì chán OC: liils plids djan MC: dei si dʑiɛn 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: the realm of the fourth level of concentration
無色界  wú sè jiè OC: ma sqrɯɡ kreeds MC: mi̯o ʂɨk kɣɛi 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: realm of non-form, the third of the three realms, sānjiè 三界 (in this realm there only exists the spirit, freed from the physical body); SANSKRIT ārūpya-dhātu; PALI arūpa-dhātu
欲界  yù jiè OC: k-loɡ kreeds MC: ji̯ok kɣɛi 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: realm of desire, the first of the three realms, sānjiè 三界 (the world of the common consciousness which is accompanied by desires and where effects of meditation cannot be seen yet); SANSKRIT kāma-dhātu