一切經音義 37.5

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37.5

Eggshell of ignorance (無明㲉) (ku + jiao fan. The Guiyuan zhucan states: "An eggshell of a bird's egg." It is a metaphor for ignorance containing and concealing the defilements, just as a bird's eggshell does. Composed with "egg" [卵] semantic and "shell" [殼] phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese