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異熟果

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Basic Meaning: result of ripening

Senses:

  • (Skt. vipāka-phala; Tib. rnam par smin pa'i 'bras bu). The result of the ripening of a cause, which is necessarily of neutral or indeterminate quality 無記, regardless of whether the cause was wholesome 善 or unwholesome 惡. The notion of ripening resulting in something entirely different from its causes is shown through examples such as the baking of bread. This becomes an important synonym of the ālayavijñāna 阿頼耶識. In Abhidharma and Yogâcāra there are extensive and diverse theories about the relationship between cause and effect. In Yogâcāra, it is understood that the ālayavijñāna is the locus for the process of cause and effect, with seeds in the ālaya coming into fruition as manifest phenomena, with these manifest phenomena further creating new seeds in the ālaya. From one perspective, the resultant ālaya in the next moment is slightly different from its causes (vipāka), and is thus called the 'differentially maturing consciousness'  異熟識. Most importantly, ripening results in a neutral positionYet, in contrast to this, causation in the ālaya exhibits a tendency to maintain sameness, which is called niṣyanda 等流. See also 異熟 (Skt. vipākâkhya, vipāka; Tib. rnam smin gyi 'bras bu). 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.5a3〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 31

    Bulgyo sajeon 715a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 126b/138

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 255

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 36b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5158

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0850

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)119b,740b,1160c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 55-2*520-2-10

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2018-03-05