迷めい界かい

noun

world of delusion; human realm; this world

Buddhist term for the realm of unenlightened beings, often contrasted with 悟界 (the world of enlightenment). Can refer specifically to the human world or more broadly to the cycle of rebirth.

• 迷めい界かいを離はなれて悟さとりを開ひらくことが仏ぶっ教きょうの目もく的てきの一ひとつだ。

  Leaving the world of delusion and attaining enlightenment is one of the goals of Buddhism.

• 彼かれは迷めい界かいの苦くるしみから逃のがれたいと願ねがった。

  He wished to escape the suffering of this world.