權

(權, 权)

The weight (on a steelyard), weight, authority, power; to balance, adjudge; bias, expediency, partial, provisional, temporary, positional; in Buddhist scriptures it is used like [lang id =1028]方便 expediency, or temporary; it is the adversative of [lang id =1028]實 q.v.

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方便的別名， 即暫時用之最後則廢之的教法。