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七十五法

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Basic Meaning: seventy-five dharmas

Senses:

  • The seventy-five mental factors listed in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya, which classifies all dharmas under seventy-five categories, divided into five groups:
    1. material factors 色法 rūpāṇi (eleven items)
    2. mind 心法 cittam (one item)
    3. factors associated with mind 心所有法 citta-saṃprayukta-saṃskārāḥ (forty-six items)
    4. factors not associated with mind 心不相應行法 cittaviprayukta-saṃskārāḥ (fourteen items) The seventy-two listed to here are the original Sarvâstivādin categories.
    5. In addition there are three unconditioned or non-phenomenal dharmas 無爲法 asaṃskṛta dharma.
    In Yogâcāra, this list is expanded out to one hundred 百法 (Skt. pañca-saptati-dharma; Tib. chos don lnga [chos mngon mdzod]). 〔大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 T 1736.36.71a15〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, JEBD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 452

    Bulgyo sajeon 873a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 274b/302

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 583d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 88

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1898b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 734-1

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2009-08-10