不定性

(不定種性) Of indeterminate nature. The 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana school divides all beings into five classes according to their potentialities. This is one of the divisions and contains four combinations:

(1) Bodhisattva-cum-(sa) śrāvaka, with uncertain result depending on the more dominant of the two;

(2) bodhisattva-cum-(sa) pratyekabuddha;

(3) (sa) śrāvaka-cum-(sa) pratyekabuddha;

(4) the characteristcs of all three vehicles intermingled with uncertain results; the third cannot attain Buddhahood, the rest may.