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想蘊

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Basic Meaning: aggregate of perception

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  • Aggregate of associative thought, or symbolic function. One of the five aggregates 五蘊, 蘊. Refers to images that surface in the mind. In the theory of mental factors in the Yogâcāra school, the factors of perceptive mental function are included in this aggregate. In Wonhyoʼs commentary on the Awakening of Faith 起信論, this aggregate is identified with the coarse mark of defining names 計名字相 (Skt. saṃjñā, saṃjñā-skandha, saṃjñāna-skandha; Tib. 'du shes kyi phung po). 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.323a10〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, YBh-Ind, Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 666

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 872d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5452

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0490

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1095a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 591-2

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2010-05-07