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十一識

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Basic Meaning: eleven consciousnesses

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  • ... as taught in the Mahāyānasaṃgraha 攝論. These are eleven kinds of distinctions to be observed in the transformations that are produced from the ālayavijñāna 阿賴耶識.
    1. bodily consciousness 身識, which refers to the five sense faculties.
    2. the consciousness of attachment to body 身者識, which is defiled consciousness.
    3. the reception consciousness 受者識, which refers to the subsequent three mental consciousnesses (6th, 7th, and 8th), which receive the impressions from the sense faculties.
    4. The concomitant reception consciousness 應受識, which refers to the objective data-fields 六塵.
    5. the reception consciousness proper 正受識, which refers to the six realms of consciousness 六識界 that bind the data-fields to the faculties.
    6. the time consciousness 世識, through which life and death continue without lapse.
    7. the calculating consciousness 數識, which counts all things from one to infinity.
    8. the locus consciousness 處識, also called the container consciousness 器識, referring to the container world 器世間 which houses the four elements 四大, five data-fields and so forth.
    9. the linguistic consciousness 言說識, which sees, hears and understands linguistic information.
    10. the consciousness of distinction of self and other 自他差別識; this consciousness also distinguishes differences in types of beings, such as those in the six destinies: hell-being 地獄, human 人間, god 天, etc.
    11. the consciousness that distinguishes the two paths of good and evil in saṃsāra 善惡兩道生死識. 〔攝大乘論 T 1593.31.118a22–29〕
    〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.878b21, 成唯識論 T 1585.31.46a25〕 [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Fo Guang Dictionary 328

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2206a, (v.9-10)267b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 689-2

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2010-08-24