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心法

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Basic Meaning: the Dharma of mind

Senses:

  • The mind, consciousness. The mind itself 心王, as contrasted with the objects of mind 心所有法. This is the first of the five classes 五法 of dharmas enumerated in the Yogâcāra scheme of one hundred dharmas 百法 (Skt. citta, vijñāna, *citta-dharma, citta-dharmatā; citta-caitta; Tib. sems kyi chos, Pāli citta, citta-dhamma). In the Yogâcāra scheme, the eight mind dharmas are:
    1. visual consciousness 眼識
    2. auditory consciousness 耳識
    3. olfactory consciousness 鼻識
    4. gustatory consciousness 舌識
    5. tactile consciousness 身識
    6. conceptualizing consciousness 意識
    7. mentation consciousness 末那識
    8. store consciousness 阿賴耶識
    [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • Mental functions, mental factors = 心所. 〔二障義 HBJ 1.805c 〕 (Skt. caitasa, caitasika, caitasikaḥ...dharmaḥ; Tib. sems las byung ba'i chos) [Charles Muller]
  • All 'things' are divided into the two classes of physical 色 and mental 心; that which has 質礙 substance and resistance is physical, that which is devoid of these is mental; or the root of all phenomena is mind 緣起諸法之根本者爲心法. The exoteric and esoteric schools differ in their interpretation: the exoterics hold that mental ideas or 'things' are 無色無形 unsubstantial and invisible, the esoterics that they 有色有形 have both substance and form. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 589

    Bulgyo sajeon 521a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 623c

    Record of Mazu: Baso no goroku (Iriya) 37-1

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 341

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 769b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1404

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0462

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1015b,1736b,1745a,1898c,1999c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 882-2, 883-1*123-1-18*568-1-5*735-1-4

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

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 151

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 542

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2018-09-24