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Definition[1]
The two modes of escape from mortality, 堅出 the long way called the 聖道門 or 自力敎, i.e. working out one's own salvation; and 橫出 the across or short way of the Pure-land sect or 他力敎 faith in or invocation of another, i.e. Amitābha.
Source
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous
Definition[2]
(名數)一豎出,聖道門自力之教,歷劫修行而出生死者。二橫出,淨土門他力之教,不歷修行地位,但念彌陀而生淨土者。樂邦文類四擇映辨橫豎二出曰:「豎出者,聲聞修四諦,緣覺修十二因緣,菩薩修六度萬行,此涉地位,譬如及第,須自有才學,又如歷任轉官,須有功效。橫出者,念佛求生淨土,譬如蔭敘,功由祖父他力,不同學業有無,又如覃恩普轉,功由國王,不論歷任淺深。」
Source
丁福保《佛學大辭典》
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