【英汉对照佛学词典】

三生


Three lives. (1) Past life, present life and future life. (2) The three main stages in the attainment of Buddhahood: (a) setting the determination to become Buddha; (b) practice and cultivation (c) experience of enlightenment. (3) The three lives (stages) taught in Tiantai 天台, which are basically the same as the prior set: (a) the seed stage 种 (发心), the maturation stage 熟 (修行), and (c) the stage of liberation (解脱). (4) The three lives of Huayan 华严: (a) seeing the Buddha and hearing his preaching in a previous life (jianwensheng 见闻生); (b) practicing for liberation in the present life (jiexingsheng 解行生) and (c) actualizing and entering in a future life (zhengrusheng 证入生).