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Basic Meaning: restlessness

Senses:

  • Unsettledness, frivolity, agitation, excitement (Skt. auddhatya). [輕躁] The lack of stillness of the mind due to projection into the past or future. The flightiness of the mind. Inability to focus the mind in stabilizing meditation. The Sanskrit auddhatya ordinarily means 'haughtiness,' but in Buddhist Sanskrit, this word takes on a special shade of meaning, for which see Edgerton, BHSD, s.v.: "frivolity, in the double sense of amusement, idle sport, and mental indolence, lack of seriousness of mind." One of the major afflictive factors 大煩惱地法 listed in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya and one of the twenty derivative afflictions 隨煩惱 in Yogâcāra. It arises from its own seeds; it operates in unwholesome, obstructing, and indeterminate mental states; it functions in all three realms 三界, and operates throughout the seven forthcoming consciousnesses, but not in the eighth. 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.280b17, 成唯識論 T 1585.31.22c17〕 [Charles Muller, Michael Radich; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 581

    Bulgyo sajeon 168a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 143b/159

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 9-P146

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 755d

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3692b,1121b,3430c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1260-3, 736-1-12*1260-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-05-08