DDB: 色 | form

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色

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Basic Meaning: form

Senses:

Matter, physical appearance. That which changes and decays, has the quality of shape and mutual obstruction. The Sanskrit root of the word rūpa, rup, is a verb which means 'to have form,' therefore the primary meaning of something which has form, or something created by forming (Skt. rūpyata iti rūpam). It also has the meaning of the verbal root ru, meaning decay, or break down, and therefore, something which decays or breaks down, or changes. It refers to a material object which has shape, is formed or created, and changes. It is defined as that which has resistance 質礙; or which changes and disappears 變壞, i. e. the phenomenal. (Tib. gzugs) [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, YBh-Ind, Yokoi, Iwanami]

Color and form; that is, as an object of the eye consciousness. That which can be seen by the eye. All material existence, possessing form. The objects of the faculties of perception, so not simply color, but color and form together. Objects of vision; one of the five object-fields. Also called 色塵 the data-field of form, which is one of the six data-fields or six objects of consciousness. Also has the meaning of form realm 色界. In the Abhidharmakośa, 色 is also interpreted as 顯色, that is, visible color as opposed to 形色 which means visible shape. [Charles Muller]

In Yogâcāra 瑜伽行派, one of the five categories of elements within the group of form 色法. When considered as one of the five object realms 五境, it is the object-realm of the faculty of sight. There are divisions of two, i. e. inner and outer, as the organs and objects of sense; also color and form; of three, i. e. the visible object, e.g., color, the invisible object, e.g., sound, the invisible and immaterial; of eleven, i. e. the five organs and five objects of sense and the immaterial object; of fourteen, the five organs and five objects of sense and the four elements, earth, water, fire, air. rūpa is one of the five skandhas, 五蘊, i. e. the 色身. [Charles Muller]

Color (Skt. varṇa, citra, ranga; Tib. kha dog); colorful. [Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]

The desirable, especially feminine attraction. Keith refers to rūpa as 'material form or matter which is underived (no-utpādā) and which is derived (utpādā),' the underived or independent being the tangible; the derived or dependent being the senses, e.g., of hearing; most of their objects, e.g., sound; the qualities or faculties of femininity, masculinity, vitality; intimation by act and speech, space; qualities of matter, e.g., buoyancy and physical nutriment (Skt. rūpin; agha, kāya, draṣṭavya, dhana, nibha, parṇa, bimba, bhūtika, bhautika, raṅga, raṅgika, rūpa-gata, rūpa-ja, rūpaṇa, rūpa-dhātu, rūpa-saṃjñāka, rūpâtmaka, rūpâpta, rūpâyatana, rūpârtha, rūpiṇaḥ...dharmāḥ, vartī). [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Hirakawa]

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[Dictionary References]

Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 444

Bulgyo sajeon 438a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 419a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten 46, 342

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 337

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 278b/309

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 642

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 13-P211

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 67a →しき , 574b

Fo Guang Dictionary 2541

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1005

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 690-1

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

Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 403

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Entry created: 1993-09-01

Updated: 2022-10-31