十不二门

(十不二門, 十不二门)

The school of the ten pairs of unified opposites founded by Jingxi [lang id =1028]荊溪 on the teaching of the Lotus sūtra. There are several books bearing the name. The unifying principle is that of the identity of contraries, and the ten apparent contraries are matter and mind, internal and external, [lang id =1028]修證 practice and proof (or realization), cause and effect, impurity and purity, objective and subjective, self and other, [lang id =1028]三業 action, speech, and thought, [lang id =1028]權實 relative and absolute, the fertilized and the fertilizer (i.e. receiver and giver). There are several treatises on the subject in the Canon.