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五事

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: five points; five frameworks

Senses:

  • The five aggregates 五蘊 (Skt. pañca-skandhaka, pañcâkāra). [Charles Muller, Joy Brennan; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa]
  • Five heretical practices of Devadatta; see 提婆五邪法. 〔四分律〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • In the Yogâcārabhūmi the list is: characteristics (nimitta, 相), names (nāman, 名), discrimination (vikalpa, 分別), thusness (tathatā, 眞如), and correct cognition (saṃyag-jñāna, 正智) (Skt. pañca vastūni; Tib. dngos po lnga). This is nearly identical to the list of five dharmas (五法) given in the Laṅkâvatāra-sūtra, and is also given in various other Yogâcāra texts, including, among others, San wuxing lun (三無性論, T 1617) and Xianyang shengjiao lun (顯揚聖教論, T 1602). [Joy Brennan; source(s): FGD, YBh-Ind]
  • Five categories of mental factors, also written 五法. In Abhidharma and Yogâcāra, this list gives an exhaustive inventory of the physical and mental factors that form our sensory and cognitive experience. The Sarvâstivāda Abhidharma list is comprised of five categories of dharmas: form (rūpa, 色), mind (citta, 心), mental factors associated with mind (caitta, 心所法), factors not associated with the mind (citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra, 心不相應行), and unconditioned factors (asaṃskṛta, 無爲法). See especially T 1555 五事毘婆沙, as well as the first fascicle of T 1542 阿毘達磨品類足論. [Joy Brennan; source(s): FGD, YBh-Ind]
  • In the Sutra in Forty Two Chapters 四十二章經, a reference to the basic five precepts 五戒. [Charles Muller]
  • Five conditions that constitute murder. The Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya 摩訶僧祇律 defines five conditions for murder, which if fulfilled constitute a pārājika offense 有五事具足殺人:
    1. The victim is human 人.
    2. There is perception of a human being 人想.
    3. There is a plan to take the life 興方便.
    4. There is an intention to kill 殺心.
    5. The victimʼs life is ended 斷命. 〔摩訶僧祇律 T 1425.22.257c4〕
    [Jeffrey Kotyk]
  • Five aspects of the spiritual friend. The five defining aspects (Skt. pañcâkāra; Tib. rnam pa lgna) of the bodhisattva 菩薩 who acts as a spiritual guide 善知識 according to the Śrāvakabhūmi 聲聞地 section of the Yogâcārabhūmi. Translated by Dharmakṣema 曇無讖 as 五事 and by Xuanzang 玄奘 as 五種相. These are:
    1. ability to reprove others through compelling speech 語言/能諫擧 (Skt. codaka);
    2. ability to induce recollection of the Dharma 與念 (Skt. smāraka);
    3. ability to instruct others 能教授 (Skt. avavādaka);
    4. ability to exhort others 能教誡 (Skt. anuśāsaka) to practice what is wholesome and eschew what is unwholesome;
    5. ability to expound the Dharma to others 能說法 (Skt. dharmadeśaka ).
    See Deleneau (2006, 184) for analysis of the pertinent passage from the Śrāvakabhūmi, as preserved in the Sanskrit (Wogihara 1971, 239) Tibetan, and Chinese versions. 〔菩薩地持經 T 1581.30.927a02; 瑜伽論 T 1579.30.535a29〕

    References:

    Deleanu, Florin. 2006. The Chapter on the Mundane Path (Laukikamārga) in the Śrāvakabhūmi: A Trilingual Edition (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese), and Annotated Translation and Introductory Study. Tokyo:  International Institute of Buddhist Studies.

    Wogihara, Unrai. 1971. Bodhisattvabhūmi: A Statement of [the] Whole Course of the Bodhisattva (Being [the] Fifteenth Section of [the] Yogācārabhūmi). Tokyo:  Sankibo Busshorin.

    [Billy Brewster]
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    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 361c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1101

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0088

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1172a,4034b

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa) {Digital Version}

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    Entry created: 2003-04-18

    Updated: 2018-12-26