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五果

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Basic Meaning: fivefold aspects of cause and effect

Senses:

  • The classification into five categories of all cause and effect relationships (Skt. pañca phalāni; Tib. 'bras bu lnga, 'bras bu lnga po dag).
    1. Resemblance between cause and effect 等流果 (niṣyanda-phala); Also referred to as basis effect 依果 and conditioned effect 習果.
    2. The effect as the temporal ripening of the cause 異熟果 (vipāka-phala), also referred to as the retributive aspect of effect 報果.
    3. The effect of having escaped from bondage 離繫果 (visaṃyoga-phala), also called liberation effect 解脫果.
    4. The effect produced where various actions are the cause 丈用果 (puruṣa-kāra-phala), also called 丈夫果 and 功用果.
    5. The effect arising due to the non-interference of various factors 增上果 (adhipati-phala).
    [Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind, Hirakawa, JEBD, Yokoi]
  • The terms assigned to the five kinds of realizations in Hīnayāna practice. [Charles Muller]
  • The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e.g., Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • Also 異熟等五果. [Charles Muller]
  • 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.301b9, 成唯識論 T 1585.31.42b25〕 [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 266

    Bulgyo sajeon 603a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 329d

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 83a/91

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 166

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 356a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1112

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0088

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 520-2

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 121

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    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2010-06-05