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無心

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: lacking (defiled) thought

Senses:

  • [Chan] Without discriminating thought. Without special purpose or aim (Skt. *acetana). Natural, spontaneous. [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, Yokoi]
  • In Yogâcāra, the five states 五位無心 in which the manovijñāna does not function (Skt. acitta, acittika; Tib. sems med pa). [Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

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    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1208d

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 786

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 247

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 204b/228

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 477

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 6-P29, 8-P17

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1335c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5075

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0754

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1705-1

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa) {Digital Version}

    Soothill 379

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    Entry created: 2002-12-22

    Updated: 2010-04-03