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Definition[1]
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(1) Four perspectives, four views, four understandings. For example, to a human being, water is something to drink; to a fish, it is the surrounding environment, to the gods it is a jewel, and to a hungry ghost it is bloody pus. (2) Equivalent to "four phrases"--see 四句. (3) In Yogācāra, the four kinds of attached views held by non-Buddhists that are associated with the manas consciousness 末那識: the view of existence of the person 有身見; the view of attachment to extremes 邊執見; evil view 邪見, and view of attachment to views 見取見. These are the same as the five views 五見, without the view of attachment to precepts. (4) In the Sanlun 三論 doctrine, four kinds of attachment associated with four kinds of teaching.
Definition[2]
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(名數)有種種之四【參見: 。見見】
Source
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丁福保《佛學大辭典》
Definition[3]
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catasro dṛṣṭayaḥ.
Source
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佛教漢梵大辭典, 平川彰 Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary, Akira Hirakawa
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p 623