Never again - Konrinzai

Japanese: 金輪際 - こんりんざい
Never again - Konrinzai

In the Buddhist worldview, this refers to the edge of the golden wheel beneath the earth. According to the Buddhist worldview, the world is divided into the human world, known as the world of sentient beings, and the natural world, known as the world of vessels, which supports it from below; the latter is made up of three wheels: the wind wheel, the water wheel, and the golden wheel. First, at the very bottom, there is a disk-shaped, or ring-shaped wind wheel with a circumference of "infinite" (a unit equivalent to 10 59 ) yojanas (1 yojana is about 7 kilometers) and a thickness of 1.6 million yojanas, floating in the void. Above it is a water wheel of the same shape, with a diameter of 1,203,450 yojanas and a thickness of 800,000 yojanas. Furthermore, above that, there is a gold earth with the same diameter as the water wheel, but 320,000 yojanas thick, and above that gold wheel are the nine mountains, the eight seas, and the four continents of Sumeru. The boundary between this gold wheel and the water wheel is called the "gold wheel edge," and since it is the very bottom of the earth for sentient beings living in Jambudvipa, one of the four continents, the meaning of "thoroughly" or "to the very end" arose. Today, it is generally used to mean "no matter what."

[Takahashi Tsuyoshi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

仏教の世界観において、大地の下にある金輪のきわをさす。仏教の世界観によると、世界は、有情世間(うじょうせけん)とよばれる人間界と、それを下から支えている器世間(きせけん)とよばれる自然界とに分類されるが、後者は、風輪、水輪、金輪の三つからなっている。まずいちばん下には、円盤状つまり輪形の周囲の長さが「無数」(というのは1059に相当する単位)ヨージャナ(由旬(ゆじゅん)。1ヨージャナは約7キロメートル)で、厚さが160万ヨージャナの風輪が虚空(こくう)に浮かんでいるものと考える。その上に、同じ形の直径120万3450ヨージャナで、厚さ80万ヨージャナの水輪がある。さらにその上に、同形の直径は水輪と同じであるが、厚さが32万ヨージャナの金でできている大地があり、その金輪の上に九山、八海、須弥四洲(しゅみししゅう)があるという。そしてこの金輪と水輪の境目のことを「金輪際」というのであるが、四洲の一つである閻浮提(えんぶだい)に住んでいる有情からすればはるかな底の底であるところから、「徹底的に」とか「最後まで」という意味が生じた。現在では一般に「いかなることがあっても」の意に用いられる。

[高橋 壯]

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