塵じん界かい

noun

this drab world; the dusty world

Buddhist term for the mundane, impure world of suffering and desire, contrasted with the pure land. Literary and somewhat archaic in everyday speech.

• 彼かれは塵じん界かいの苦くるしみから逃のがれようと出しゅっ家けした。

  He became a monk to escape the suffering of this drab world.