因緣

Readings

Pinyin: yīnyuán

Wade-Giles: yin-yüan

Hangul: 인연

Korean MC: inyeon

Korean MR: inyŏn

Katakana: インネン

Hepburn: innen

nhân duyên

cause(s) and condition(s)

• In the most basic sense, the character 因 refers to a main cause (Skt. hetu; Tib. rgyu), which directly incurs a result, while 緣 refers to an indirect cause (Skt. pratyaya), which helps or participates in producing the result. In terms of the description of the causal factors involved in a mental event in Buddhist philosophy, this term denotes conditions that are direct causes (Skt. hetu-pratyaya; Tib. rgyu'i rkyen, rgyu dang rkyen), one of the four types of causes set forth in Yogâcāra 四緣 and Sautrāntika. In the narrower context of consciousness theory, it refers to the seeds (種子 bīja) that are the most direct cause for any given mental event. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,YBh-Ind, JEBD, Yokoi]
• Causal situation; (Skt. nidāna; Tib. gzhi) The 十二因緣 twelve nidānas or links are "the concatenation of cause and effect in the whole range of existence."[resp. Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge]
• Logical cause, reason (Skt. kāraṇa; Tib. gtan tshigs). [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
• Dependent origination (Skt. pratītya-samutpāda). [resp. Charles Muller]
• A Chinese translation of the Sanskrit nidāna  尼陀那 or avadāna, the genre of historical narratives contained in the Buddhist canon—one of the twelve traditional genre divisions of the Buddhist canon 十二部經. 〔起信論 T 1666.32.575a29〕 [resp. Charles Muller]
• In the Japanese popular imagination, the idea that certain events were "bound to happen" because they were the result of actions taken or relationships fostered in past lives. [resp. Griffith Foulk]
• This compound word can be found in early Chinese classics such as the Shiji 史記 (Tian Shulie zhuan) 田叔列傳) and the Hou Han shu 後漢書 (Chenchong zhuan 陳寵傳), with fundamentally the same meaning of "connection." [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Iwanami]
• (Skt. ākāraṇa, ārambaṇa, upaniṣad-bhāva, upāya, kāraṇatva, kāraṇa-bhāva, kāraṇa-bhūta, kāraṇa-hetu, kāraṇā, tantra, nidāna-paryāya, nimitta, niṣyanda, paryāya, pāratantrya, prakaraṇa, prakṛti, pratītya, pratītya-samutpanna, pratyayatā, prayojana, vṛtta, hetutva, hetu-viṣaya, hetv-ākhya; Tib. gleng bzhi'i sde, rgyu rkyen) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 53, 54

Bulgyo sajeon, 731a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 59b

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 51

Zengaku zokugokai (Genkyō zenji), 33/205

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 131, 132

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 129b/142

Koga, 27

Record of Linji: Rinzairoku (Yanagida), 226-7

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 261

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 10-P185

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 72b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 2301

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0285

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)173b,1722c,1728b,4051b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 91-3*685-3-15

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

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 206

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 583

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