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Basic Meaning: contact

Senses:

  • Or touch (Skt. sparśa, saṃsparśa; Tib. reg pa). The mental function that brings consciousness into contact with external objects. In Yogâcāra theory, in one interpretation it is considered to be one of the five omnipresent mental factors 五遍行. One of the twelve links of conditioned arising 十二因緣. But also see next. [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge; source(s): Ui, Nakamura]
  • Tangible; a tactile object, one of the five/six objects of perception and sensation 五境/五塵(六境) (Skt. spraṣṭavya; Tib. reg bya). In this sense, it is counted as one of the form dharmas 色法 and one of the four sensory objects 四塵; as a derivative of the four elements 四大, it does not have its own distinctive seeds, but the four elements themselves do have seeds. [Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
  • To attain (Skt. spṛśati; Tib. reg par byed pa). [Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
  • Also used as a variant form of meaning of 濁 'unclean.' [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Soothill]
  • Held onto (Pāli parāmaṭṭha). 〔解脫道論 T 1648.32.401c22〕 [Nyanatusita]
  • (Skt. āmṛśa, āmoṣa, upahanyamāna, parāmṛṣṭa, mṛdu, saṃyoga, saṃsarga, saṃsṛṣṭa, saṃsparśa-ja, saṃsparśana, samudīraṇatva, spariśa, sparśana, sparśa-bhāva, sparśa-bhūta, sparśitavya, sparṣṭavya, spṛśya, spṛṣṭa, spṛṣṭi, spraṣṭavyatva, spraṣṭavyâyatana; Pāli phoṭṭhabba, phassa; Tib. reg bya rlung gi yon tan, reg bya) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    Bulgyo sajeon 859a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 762a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 888c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 6802

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 1069

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3127a,1127b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1080-2*735-1-16

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2018-02-06