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蘊

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: aggregate(s)

Senses:

  • Cluster. There are two main meanings: that of something that is accumulated and that of something differentiated. The constitutional elements (aggregates) of human existence, numbered at five 五蘊. During the Han dynasty, skandha was translated as 陰; during the Jin as 衆, and in the Tang as 蘊. (Pāli khandha; Tib. phung po). The skandhas refer only to the conditioned world, not to the unconditioned 無爲 (Skt. skandhaka, skandha-mātra, upadhi, rāśi). [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, YBh-Ind, JEBD, Hirakawa]
  • To gather, to hoard, collect, bring together. [Charles Muller]
  • Skandha transliterated as 塞建陀 also means 'the shoulder;' 'the body;'   'the trunk of a tree;'   'a section,' etc. (M-W) Thus, it also refers to a section of a text. See 犍度. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 73

    Bulgyo sajeon 629a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 71a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 325a/361

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 95d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 6790

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1031

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)233c,993b,4030b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 124-3

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-04-22