究竟 [py] jiu4jing4 [wg] chiu-ching [ko] kugyông [ja] キュウキョウ kukyou ||| (1) Unsurpassed, final, extreme, best, ideal (atyanta). (2) Utmost, limit, extremity (nisthaa). (3) To completely exhaust. Arrive. Reach, attain. To master (a topic). Especially, to arrive to the highest position of bodhisattvahood, or thorough enlightenment (nisthaa-gamana). (4) To thoroughly realize or comprehend. (5) To truly make manifest (samaapana). (6) Final goal. Becoming a Buddha (especially in Tiantai or Hua-yen). [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

究竟一乘寶性論 [py] Jiu4jing 4yi1sheng 2bao3xing4lun4 [wg] Chiu-ching i-sheng pao-hsing lun [ko] kugyông ilsûng posôngnon [ja] キュウキョウイチジョウホウショウロン Kyuukyouichijou houshouron ||| The Chiu-ching i-sheng pao-hsing lun; (Ratnagotravibhaaga-mahaayaananottaratantra-`saastra); four fascicles; translated into Chinese by Ratnamati 勒那摩提. T 1611.31.831a-848a. [Credit] acm(entry)

究竟位 [py] jiu4jing4 wei4 [wg] chiu-ching-wei [ko] kugyôngui [ja] キュウキョウ kukyoui ||| The 'final stage' among the five stages of practice enumerated by Vasubandhu in his Thirty Verses on Consciousness-only. The fruit of Buddhahood. Reversing the basis of one's existence, experiencing great enlightenment and great nirvaana. The person who has achieved this rank will engage in the practice of saving all sentient beings in a future lifetime. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

究竟道 [py] jiu4jing4dao4 [wg] chiu-ching-tao [ko] kugyôngdo [ja] クキョウドウ kukyoudou ||| The ultimate path, final path, final stage of practice; goal of practice. Also see 究竟位. In this stage one experiences the adamantine absorbtion 金剛喩定. 〔二障義HPC 1.805a7〕 [Dictionary References] naka263a [Credit] acm(entry)

空寂 [py] kong1ji2 [wg] k'ung-chi [ko] kongjôk [ja] ジャク kuujaku ||| 'Void and tranquil.' (1) Emptiness and tranquility, commonly said of the Hiinayaana nirvaana. (2) Completely empty. The reality of the lack of inherent existence of all things. Emptiness. (vivikta) [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

空教 [py] kong1 jiao1 [wg] k'ung-chiao [ko] konggyo [ja] キョウ kuukyou ||| The teaching that beings and elements both lack inherent existence. According to the Praj~naapaaramitaa sutras, if one investigates the five skandhas, one discerns that the basic nature of all elements is that of emptiness. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

空無我 [py] kong1 wu2wo3 [wg] k'ung-wu-wo [ko] kongmua [ja] ムガ kuumuga ||| Emptiness and no-self. The emptiness of all dharmas and the no-self of the five skandhas. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

空華 [py] kong1hua2 [wg] k'ung-hua [ko] konghwa [ja] ケ kuuge ||| "sky-flowers." Illusory flowers seen in the sky as the result of an optical disorder. A metaphor used in East Asian texts such as the Awakening of Faith, `Suurangama-suutra and Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, to show the nature of discriminated ignorance. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

空處 [py] kong1chu4 [wg] k'ung-ch'u [ko] kongch'ô [ja] ショ kuusho ||| (1) Empty place (countryside). (2) The formless realm. (3) The first stage of the formless realm, usually called the 空無邊處. [Credit] acm(entry) cw(py)

空觀 [py] kong1guan1 [wg] k'ung-kuan [ko] konggwan [ja] クウガン kuugan ||| "observing emptiness;" the meditative practice in which one observes the lack of inherent nature in all things. The observation of the emptiness of all things, based on the Buddhist principle that all things arise through the process of dependent co-origination. A common Mahaayaana explanation of the practice of the meditation on emptiness is that in which the two "hiinayaana" practitioners (`sraavaka and pratyekabuddha), meditating on the emptiness of self 我空 succeed in overcoming the hindrances of defilement 煩惱障, while bodhisattvas, contemplating the emptiness of dharmas as well as the emptiness of self 我法二空, succeed in overcoming the hindrance of the known 所知障. 〔二障義HPC 1.792c〕Nakamura includes an explanation of Tiantai specific connotations of this tersm. [Dictionary References] naka280b [Credit] acm(entry)