三断

(三斷, 三断)

The three cuttings off or excisions (of [lang id =1028]惑 beguiling delusions, or perplexities).

(1) (a) [lang id =1028]見所斷 to cut off delusions of view, of which Hīnayāna has eighty-eight kinds; (b) [lang id =1028]修所斷in practice, eighty-one kinds; (c) [lang id =1028]非所斷nothing left to cut off, perfect. v. [lang id =1028]倶舍論 2.

(2) (a) [lang id =1028]自性斷 to cut off the nature or root (of delusion); (b) [lang id =1028]緣縛斷 to cut off the external bonds, or objective causes (of delusions); (c) [lang id =1028]不生斷 (delusion) no longer arising, therefore nothing produced to cut off. The third stage in both groups is that of an arhat.