翻譯名義集 2.253

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【Samaya】The Kanzheng ji states: "This is termed 'nominal time', and is also termed short time or long time. The Treatise states that in order to eliminate wrong views, samaya is used, and kāla is not spoken. Furthermore, some say: 'All goodness and ugliness of heaven and earth take time as their cause.' The Treatise extensively demonstrates that the three times are without characteristics, and therefore the phenomena of time lack real existence. For this reason samaya is spoken, so that they do not give rise to wrong views. Samaya is a figurative name for time, which is also nominal time. It is also called long time and short time because, unlike the fixed attachments of non-Buddhists, it is merely a conventional designation of length or shortness, lacking any reality. Whether short or long, all are named samaya. Observing the arising and ceasing of the aggregates, realms, and sense bases, it is conventionally designated as time."