三種教相 - Dictionary

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三種教相

Dictionary Definition:

The three modes of the Buddha's teaching of the Southern Sects: 頓 immediate, 漸 gradual or progressive, and 不定 indeterminate.

Source: A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms -- by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous