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Basic Meaning: pervasive mental factors

Senses:

  • Mental factors that operate everywhere (Skt. mahā-bhūmika-dharmāḥ). As taught in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya. Operating everywhere, means that they are functioning in mental activities that are morally good, evil, as well as neutral. There are ten of this type:
    1. sensation 受,
    2. perception 想,
    3. volition 思,
    4. touch 觸,
    5. desire 欲,
    6. intelligence 慧,
    7. recollection 念,
    8. intention 作意,
    9. verification 勝解,
    10. samādhi 三摩地
    〔倶舍論, T 1558.29.19a26〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • In Mahāyāna, the ten bodhisattva bhūmi 十地. In Abhidharma, the stages above that of the path of seeing 見道, and the mental conditions connected with them (Skt. mahā-bhūmi, mahā-bhūmika). [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 702

    Bulgyo sajeon 162a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 918a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 778

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0320

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3323b,1898c,2066a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1149-1

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2021-02-24