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shinzoku-nitai  Term Image (shinzoku-nitai) Script Image
(Language:  Japanese)
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Short Description: Term for the double theory of truth, mundane and supermundane.
Long Description: Term for the double theory of truth, mundane and supermundane. Initially a philosophical, epistemic distinction developed by the pivotal Buddhist teacher Nagarjuna (150-250 C.E.). In later Japanese Buddhism it was given a social interpretation in which the supermundane teaching denoted the path of salvation, while the mundane teaching referred to the morality and ethics prescribed by society.
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Source(s): Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism, by Alfred Bloom
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Provided By: Dictionary of Spiritual Terms