- 解脫
- (解脫, 解脱)
(sa) mukti, 'loosing, release, deliverance, liberation, setting free,... emancipation.' M.W. (sa) mokṣa, 'emancipation, deliverance, freedom, liberation, escape, release.' M.W. Escape from bonds and the obtaining of freedom, freedom from transmigration, from karma, from illusion, from suffering; it denotes (sa) nirvāṇa and also the freedom obtained in (sa) dhyāna-meditation; it is one of the five characteristics of Buddha; v. [lang id =1028]五分法身. It is also (sa) vimukti and (sa) vimokṣa, especially in the sense of final emancipation. There are several categories of two kinds of emancipation, also categories of three and eight. Cf. [lang id =1028]毘; and [lang id =1028]八解脫.* * *脫離束縛而得自在的意思, 亦即涅槃的別名。
Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.