十力
Readings
Pinyin: shílì
Wade-Giles: shih-li
Hangul: 십력
Korean MC: simnyeok
Korean MR: simnyŏk
Katakana: ジュウリキ
Hepburn: jūriki
thập lực
ten powers
- Also expressed as 如來十力 and 十種力 (Skt. daśa-balāni). Ten kinds of powers of awareness specially possessed by the Buddha. In the *Saṃyuktâbhidharma-hṛdaya-śāstra 雜阿毘曇心論 (T 1552), they are defined as:
- distinguishing right and wrong; knowing what is right or wrong in every condition 處非處智力;
- knowing one's own karma, as well as knowing the karma of every being, past, present, and future 自業智力; or knowing karmic maturation 業異熟智力;
- knowledge of all forms of meditation; knowing all stages of dhyāna liberation, and samādhi 靜慮解脫等持等至智力;
- knowledge of the relative capacities of sentient beings 根勝劣智力 (or 根上下智力);
- knowledge of what sentient beings have devoted interest in; the desires, or moral direction of every being 種種勝解智力;
- knowledge of the varieties of causal factors (seeds 種子) 種種界智力;
- knowledge of the gamut of courses and paths pursued by sentient beings 遍趣行智力;
- knowledge of remembrance of past lives 宿住隨念智力;
- knowledge of where people will die and be reborn 死生智力;
- knowledge of the methods of destroying all contamination. 漏盡智力.
In the Sutra of Brahmā's Net the ten powers are:
- power of the knowledge of appropriateness 處力
- knowledge power 智力
- power of [knowledge of] fruits desired 果欲力
- power of [knowledge of] natures 性力
- power of the [knowledge of] faculties 根力
- power of [knowledge of] determination 定力
- power of [knowledge of] the path 道力
- power of the divine eye 天眼力
- power of [knowledge of] previous lives 宿世力
- power of [the knowledge of] liberation 解脫力. 〔梵網經 T 1484.24.1001b27〕
[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Yokoi, Soothill, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]
- The ten powers of a bodhisattva.
- devotion to the Buddha's teaching and no attachment to anything,
- increasing one's devotion,
- the expedient ability to instruct people and alter their conduct,
- understanding what people think,
- satisfying people with what they want,
- no cessation of exertion,
- including all vehicles without abandoning the Mahāyāna,
- the mysterious power of showing the appearance of the Buddhas in every world in each pore of the body,
- making people turn toward the Buddha's teachings and leading them to perfection, and
- satisfying all kinds of people with even a single phrase.
There is another set of ten bodhisattva powers listed in the Shoulengyan sanmei jing 〔首楞嚴三昧經 T 642.15.643a25〕
[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Yokoi]
- One who possesses the ten powers. [resp. Charles Muller]
- (Skt. bala-prāpta, daśa-tathāgata-bala; Pāli dasa-balāni; Tib. stobs bcu) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
- Also included as part of the 140 distinctive characteristics of a tathāgata 百四十不共佛法. [resp. Charles Muller]
Dictionary References:
Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 516
Bulgyo sajeon, 525a
Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 497a
Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 400
Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 153a/169
Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 311
Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 1-P82, 9-P151
Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 661c
Fo Guang Dictionary, 361
Ding Fubao
Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0216
Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.9-10)380b,1150b
Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 955-1*1783-3
Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)
Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller
generated: 2014-03-28