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五法

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Basic Meaning: five kinds of dharmas

Senses:

  • (Skt. pañca-dharma, pañca dharmāḥ, dharma-pañcaka, pañca, pañca-jñeya). Five 'dharmas,' five things, five phenomena. Usually refers to five things, categories, rules, teachings, etc. that are being discussed in a text just before or after, and so the meaning can be various. Among specific uses of the term are the following. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Hirakawa, Nakamura]
  • The five skandhas 五蘊. 〔倶舍論〕 [Charles Muller]
  • In Yogâcāra, the five categories of purified cognition (see 五智). They are
    1. thusness 眞如;
    2. mirror cognition 大圓鏡智;
    3. cognition of the intrinsic equality of all beings 平等性智;
    4. wondrous observing cognition 妙觀察智;
    5. cognition with unrestricted activity 成所作智.
    [Charles Muller]
  • The five categories of form and name as explained in the Laṅkâvatāra-sūtra 楞伽經:
    1. phenomenal appearances 相 (nimitta);
    2. their names 名 (nāma);
    3. deluded conceptions 分別 (saṃkalpa);
    4. corrective wisdom 正智 (samyagjñāna); and
    5. tathatā or absolute wisdom 如如.
    [Charles Muller, Dan Lusthaus]
  • An abbreviation of 'five ranks of dharma.' In East Asian Yogâcāra 唯識 the five categories of dharmas 五法 include the four conditioned dharmas: form dharmas 色法, mental dharmas 心法, mental function dharmas 心所法, dharmas not concomitant with mind 心不相應行法, and the single category of unconditioned dharmas 無爲法. In Abhidharma there are seventy-five dharmas 五位七十五法, and in Yogâcāra, one hundred 百法. [Charles Muller]
  • The five sense consciousnesses. See 五識. [Charles Muller]
  • The five omnipresent mental factors. See 五遍行. [Charles Muller]
  • The five obnoxious rules of Devadatta 提婆五法: not to take milk in any form, nor meat, nor salt; to wear unshaped garments, and to live apart. Another set is: to wear cast-off rags, beg food, have only one set meal a day, dwell in the open, and abstain from all kinds of flesh, milk, etc. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 286

    Bulgyo sajeon 609a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 375b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1114

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0088

    Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) ③280a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4034c,4265a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 567-3

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 121

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    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2020-10-08