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五蓋

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Basic Meaning: five obstructions

Senses:

  • Five obstructions of wisdom; also written 五盖. Five kinds of affliction that block off the true mind: desire 貪欲, wrath 瞋恚 (or 瞋怒; pratigha), dullness 沈 (睡眠，middha), agitation and remorse 掉悔 (auddhatyaーkaukṛtya), and doubt 疑. (Skt. *pañcâvaraṇa, pañca-nivaraṇāni, *pañca-nīvaraṇa; Tib. sgrib pa lnga, sgrib pa lnga po dag). [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, YBh-Ind, JEBD, Hirakawa, Yokoi, Iwanami]
  • According to the Pāli Mahāsatipaṭṭhana sutta, the five obstructions are sense-desire (Pāli: kāma-cchanda), anger or ill will (vyāpāda), sloth-and-torpor (thīna-midha), agitation-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca), and doubt (vicikicchā).

    References:

    Walshe, Maurice O'C., trans. 1996. The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dighā Nikāya. Boston:  Wisdom Publications.

    [Billy Brewster]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 266

    Bulgyo sajeon 602a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 330a

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 261

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 78b/87

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 162

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 356c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1194

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0090

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 221-1*513-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-15

    Updated: 2018-08-27