九品

Nine classes, or grades, i.e. [lang id =1028]上上, [lang id =1028]上中, [lang id =1028]上下 upper superior, middle superior, lower superior, and so on with [lang id =1028]中 and [lang id =1028]下. They are applied in many ways, e.g. [lang id =1028]上品上生 the highest type of incarnate being, to [lang id =1028]下品下生, the lowest, with corresponding karma; see [lang id =1028]九品淨土. Each grade may also be subdivided into nine, thus making a list of eighty-one grades, with similar further subdivision ad infinitum.

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九種的品類， 即上上、 上中、 上下、 中上、 中中、 中下、 下上、 下中、 下下。