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眼根

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Basic Meaning: faculty of sight

Senses:

  • Organ of sight; one of the five 五根 (or six 六根) sense faculties (Skt. cakṣur-indriya); that which the production of the visual consciousness depends upon. It functions based on the four elements 四大. Having a pure essential nature, which is invisible, is called a transcendent faculty. The eyeball, which is visible, is called a 'world supporting faculty'  扶塵根, which in turn relies on the transcendent faculty 勝義根. Blindness is said to be a case where the physical eye is present, but the transcendent faculty is not, so that there is no ability to arise eye consciousness (Skt. cakṣur-dhātu, cakṣur-āyatana, cakṣus; Pāli cakkhu-indriya; Tib. mig gi dbang po). [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, JEBD]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 255

    Bulgyo sajeon 560a, 560a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 73b/81

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 340c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4743

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0880

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)948a,1178b,4038a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 443-3*734-1-25

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2015-06-05