Abhyavakashika, Ābhyavakāśika: 8 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Ābhyavakāśika can be transliterated into English as Abhyavakasika or Abhyavakashika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक) refers to “illumination is without any upper cover” [?], according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “[...] Thus the realm of the dharma and the realm of self are not two. Why is that? Since the self is pure, the realm of the dharma is also pure. In that way all dharmas are pure, and this purity is illumination; the illumination is without any upper cover (ābhyavakāśika); where there is no upper cover, there is no space (avakāśa) for any distinguishing marks; where there are no distinguishing marks there is no basis at all, and being without any basis is the same as open space. In that way he is in accordance with knowledge, and due to the knowledge, he is also in accordance with all dharmas. That is the knowledge of the Bodhisattva becoming like open space”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
General definition (in Buddhism)
Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक) refers to “the virtue of (living in an) empty place” and represents one of the “twelve ascetic virtues” (dhūtaguṇa) as defined in the Dharma-saṃgraha (section 63). The Dharma-samgraha (Dharmasangraha) is an extensive glossary of Buddhist technical terms in Sanskrit (e.g., ābhyavakāśika). The work is attributed to Nagarjuna who lived around the 2nd century A.D.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक).—a. (-kī f.) Living in the open air.
Abhyavakāśika (अभ्यवकाशिक).—adj. and subst. m. and (?) nt. (from prec.; = Pali abbhokāsika; [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] also ābhy°, q.v.; compare also Sanskrit abhrāvakāśika, which in MIndic would have the same form, and which Critical Pali Dictionary suggests may be the historic original, [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] having hyper-Sanskrit forms; but compare abhyavakāśa, for which no Sanskrit *abhrā° is recorded), (an ascetic) living in the open air, one of the dhūtaguṇa: Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 387.8; Śikṣāsamuccaya 137.1 (contrasted with one who lives in a monastery); °kam, n. sg. nt., Mahāvyutpatti 7477, the practice of living as a monk in the open air (but see ābhy°, which probably read).
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Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक).—adj. and subst. m. or nt. (as m. = abhy°, q.v.), (an ascetic) living in the open air (one of the 12 dhūta-guṇa): Mahāvyutpatti 1136 = Tibetan bla gab med pa (see [Tibetan-English Dictionary]); Dharmasaṃgraha 63; nt. °kam, the practice of living as such an ascetic, Mahāvyutpatti 7477 (Kyoto ed. abhy°, but Index also ābhy°, and Mironov ābhy°) = Tibetan mṅon par skabs yod pa (see [Tibetan-English Dictionary]).
Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक):—mfn. ([from] abhy-avakāśa), living in the open air, [Buddhist literature]
Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक):—(von abhyavakāśa) adj. in freier Luft lebend [Burnouf 309.]
Ābhyavakāśika (आभ्यवकाशिक):—Adj. in freier Luft lebend (buddh.).
Abhyavakāśika (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 坐空地 [zuò kōng de]: “(to stay in an open space”..
2) 居露地 [jū lù de]: “to stay in an open space”..
3) 極逈色 [jí jiǒng sè]: “extremely subtle colors and shapes”.
2) Ābhyavakāśikā (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 露地住 [lù de zhù]: “dwelling in the open air”.
2) 露地坐 [lù de zuò]: “living in the open air”.
3) 露坐 [lù zuò]: “dwelling in the open air”.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Full-text (+0): Abhisamkshepika, Lu zuo, Dhutaguna, Abhyavakasha, Zuo kong de, Ju lu de, Lu de zuo, Lu de zhu, Avakashika, Ji jiong se.
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