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無想果

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Basic Meaning: effects of no-thought meditation

Senses:

  • The condition that is the result of cultivating the no-thought concentration 無想定, which is rebirth in the No-thought Heaven 無想天 (Skt. asaṃjñika, asaṃjñi-samāpatti). In Yogâcāra theory, one of the twenty-four factors not associated with mind. When one is born into No Thought Heaven, the mental functions of the first six consciousnesses do not arise. Yogâcāra regards this to be only a preliminary attainment which is more like a state of blankness in which affliction and nescience are only temporarily suppressed, claiming that non-Buddhist meditation traditions tend to erroneously take it to real enlightenment. For Yogâcāra, real enlightenment must be grounded in complete extinction of discriminating thought, as in 滅盡定 (Skt. āsaṃjñika). 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.5c10〕 [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1041

    Bulgyo sajeon 220a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 205b/229

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1339b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5124

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0780

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 736-2-18*1699-2

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    Entry created: 2003-06-06

    Updated: 2008-01-05