vimokṣa (14110)

vimokṣa
Entry 14110, Page 497, Col. 1

(vimokza, vimokza)
vimokṣa¦, m. (Skt. id., Pali vimokkha), release, salvation. As in Pali, there are three, or eight, vi°; the three are in Pali suññato, animitto, appaṇihito vi°, ex- plained Vism. 658, and in Dharmas 73 śūnyato 'nimitto 'praṇihitaś ca; in Mvy 1541--4, three vi°-mukhāni, approach- es, entrances to…, listed as śūnyatā-, animittaṃ (sc. °mukham), apraṇihitaṃ; references to the three (or three- fold) vi° (often foll. by -mukha, or corruptly -sukha), LV 9.6; 181.20; 205.3; 359.22; 374.10; Gv 472.9; in Laṅk 163.4 vimokṣa-traya seems, however, to mean the opposite of the three saṃgati (q.v. 2), which seems to mean the three saṃdhi (q.v. 6); the eight vi° explained at length Mvy 1510--1518 (corresp. to Pali vimokkha); more briefly, and with accidental omission of the third, Dharmas 59; references to 8 vi°, SP 150.2; 180.1 (prose, read aṣṭavi- mokṣā(ḥ) with mss., Bhvr., possessing the 8 vimokṣa, exactly like ṣaḍabhijñā(ḥ) just before; note in ed. and em. wrong); 202.11; Av ii.69.2; Bodhisattva-vimokṣa means a Mahāyāna method of salvation; various fanciful names are given to such mystical (and not specifically described) methods; e.g. in Gv 261.4 a ‘night-goddess’ claims to have learned the Bodhisattva-vi° called samanta- bhadraprītivipulavimalavegadhvaja. See also vimukti.

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