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聲

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Basic Meaning: voice

Senses:

  • Words, speech, sound. As sound, the requisite for the auditory consciousness 耳識 (Skt. śabda; Pāli sadda). As one of the five fields 五塵, it is the field of sound 聲入, or 聲塵. Being produced from the four elements 四大 it is the object of the auditory faculty 耳根. One of the mental factors of in the category of form 色法 in the Yogâcāra framework of mental factors. According to the Kanjin kakumu shō, There are two kinds: sensed 執受 and unsensed 不執受, as well as four kinds of concurrent receptions: pleasant 可意, unpleasant 不可意, and both arising in contradiction. Each of these six kinds has its own seeds, so they are not derivative factors. Their raw substance 本質 is transformed at the level of the eighth consciousness. Their projected forms 影像 (pratibimba) are transformed by the auditory consciousness, and sometimes also by the sixth consciousness (manovijñāna. 〔觀心覺夢鈔 T 2312.71.68b3〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • A measure word indicating a single repetition of an oral formula. (cf. Shandaoʼs 善導 Guanjing xuanyi fen 觀經玄義分, T 1753.37.249c26) [Charles Jones]
  • To listen. [Charles Muller]
  • Name, fame. [Charles Muller]
  • Teaching, education, instruction. [Charles Muller]
  • (Skt. ghoṣa, ruta, svara; abhinadita, krośa, garjita, gir, gira, ghoṣa-mātra, jalpa, dhvani, dhvanita, *nāda, nirghoṣa, praṇāda, *yaśas, rava, vāg-vyāhāra, śabda-ghoṣa, śabda-dhātu, śabda-vijñapti, śrava, śrotavyaka, svana, svaratā; Tib. sgra) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 312

    Bulgyo sajeon 464a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 409c, 733d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 6493

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0960

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)2542a,1127b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 473-1

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-11-07