====== 八惡處 ======

八惡處(bā è chù)　“the eight evil states of existence” (= BHS. //aṣ//ṭ//a akṣaṇāni//, the eight inopportune births, viz: [at a time when a Buddha is living] one is born [1] in a hell, [2] as an animal, [3] as a preta, [4] as one of the ‘long-lived gods’, [5] in border countries or barbarian regions, [6] with perverted, heretical mentality, [7] dull, stupid, incapable of distinguishing the gospel from what is inconsistent with it; or [8] he is born capable of profiting from the gospel but at a time when no Buddha exists to teach it. [BHSD , s.v.//akṣaṇa//]; cf. also Nakamura 1104d. 八難)　<WRAP indent><WRAP paragraph indent_x2>not found at HD. 2.18.; </WRAP></WRAP><WRAP indent><WRAP paragraph indent>Lk. 476c20. 賢者！欲知：佛身因縁所生。用世間人欲得見佛故。其人前世有功徳，其人遠離<wrap em>八</wrap><wrap em>惡</wrap><wrap em>處</wrap>生，其人黠慧信於佛。(p)</WRAP></WRAP><WRAP indent><WRAP paragraph indent_x2>not found at AS. ; ZQ. 507b17.八惡處; not found at Zfn. ; not found at Kj. ; not found at Xz(I). ; not found at Xz(II). ; not found at Sh. ; not found at Tib. ; </WRAP></WRAP>