Important Knowledge in the Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
171 - Primary Karma and Complementary Karma (1/5)
(1) Primary Karma and Complementary Karma
After sentient beings die, where they will be reborn within the six realms is entirely determined by karma (their actions). Because karmic actions do not disappear, all beings unfold their future destiny according to the three kinds of karma—bodily, verbal, and mental actions.
In Buddhist teachings on karmic retribution and rebirth, the karmic force that leads one to be reborn as a human, animal, or into other realms is called primary karma (cause-leading karma). Once born as a human, the karma that establishes one’s social status, beauty or ugliness, fortune or suffering, is called complementary karma (karma that completes).
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171 引業與滿業
一、引業與滿業
眾生死了之後，下輩子是投生到六道中的哪一道，是完全由業（行為）所 決定的。因為「業不滅」，因此眾生都是依據自己的身口意「三業」而展開未來 的命運。
從佛教的「業報輪迴論」來說，輪迴為人或畜生等各趣的業力，謂之「引 業」。出生為人，而促成其貴賤美醜的業力，謂之「滿業」。
Namo Amituofo!
