法界

(sa) dharmadhātu, 法性; 實相; 達磨馱都 Dharma-element, -factor, or-realm.

(1) A name for "things" in general, noumenal or phenomenal; for the physical universe, or any portion or phase of it.

(2) The unifying underlying spiritual reality regarded as the ground or cause of all things, the absolute from which all proceeds. It is one of the eighteen (sa) dhātus. These are categories of three, four, five, and ten (sa) dharmadhātus; the first three are combinations of 事 and 理 or active and passive, dynamic and static; the ten are: Buddha-realm, Bodhisattva-realm, (sa) pratyekabuddha-realm, (sa) śrāvaka, (sa) deva, Human, (sa) asura, Demon, Animal, and Hades realms-a Huayan category. Tiantai has ten for meditaton, i.e. the realms of the eighteen media of perception (the six organs, six objects, and six sense-data or sensations), of illusion, sickness, karma, (sa) māra, (sa) samādhi, (false) views, pride, the two lower Vehicles, and the Bodhisattva Vehicle.