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想

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: ideation

Senses:

  • Perception; to conceive; conceptual thought. Conceptualization, associative thought. A concept, an idea. The symbolification of sensory data. The process by which the images of things are copied into the mind and are assigned names. The function of arising thoughts in the mind regarding shape, color, length, pleasure/pain, etc. (Pāli saññā; Skt. saṃjñā; Tib. 'du shes, shes pa, ming).

    Ideation is one of the five aggregates 五蘊. In Abhidharma theory, one of the ten omnipresent factors 大地法. In Yogâcāra, one of the five omnipresent mental factors 五遍行. In this context, the Cheng weishi lun says: "The nature of ideation (saṃjñā) is to grasp the images of objects, and its function is to impute various names and words. When distinct characteristics of the object are established, then various names and words are produced accordingly."  「想謂於境取像爲性。施設種種名言爲業。謂要安立境分齊相方能隨起種種名言。」  〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.11c23–24〕

    [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]
  • (Skt. kalpanā; adhimucyamāna, abhipraya, abhipreta, ākāra, upalabdhi, kalpa, kalpana, kalpayati, citta, citta-saṃkalpa, jñapti, nimitta, parikalpa, parikalpyate, prakalpayati, prakalpita, buddhi, bhāvayati, bhūyo'bhiprayaḥ, manasi-kāra, vikalpa, vibhāvayati, visaṃjñin, saṃjñaka, saṃjñāna, saṃjñita, saṃjñitva,saṃmata, saṃmati) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 666

    Bulgyo sajeon 427a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 711c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 509

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 305a/338

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 726

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 6-P21

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 872c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5451

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0490

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3017a,1291a,3323c, (v.9-10)322a,1076a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 590-3*735-1-15

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

    Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 536

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2017-02-13