- 淨土
- (淨土, 净土)
Sukhāvatī. The Pure Land, or Paradise of the West, presided over by Amitābha. Other Buddhas have their Pure Lands; seventeen other kinds of pure land are also described, all of them of moral or spiritual conditions of development, e.g. the pure land of patience, zeal, wisdom, etc.* * *謂其地純以金剛所成, 眾寶間錯, 種種莊嚴, 皆悉殊勝, 即華藏世界, 西方安養等世界也; 以其無有四趣五濁等穢惡, 是名淨土。 (四趣者, 修羅趣、 餓鬼趣、 畜生趣、 地獄趣也。 五濁者, 劫濁、 見濁、 煩惱濁、 眾生濁、 命濁也。 )* * *聖人所住的國土, 因這種國土沒有五濁的垢染, 所以叫做淨土。
Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.