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心法

Readings

Pinyin: xīnfǎ

Wade-Giles: hsin-fa

Hangul: 심법

Korean MC: simbeop

Korean MR: simbŏp

Katakana: シンボウ

Hepburn: shinbō

tâm pháp

the Dharma of mind

The mind, consciousness. The mind itself 心王, as contrasted with the objects of mind 心所有法. This is the first of the five classes 五法 of dharmas enumerated in the Yogâcāra scheme of 100 dharmas 百法. (Skt. citta, vijñāna, *citta-dharma, citta-dharmatā; citta-caitta; Tib. sems kyi chos, Pāli citta, citta-dhamma) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
Mental functions, mental factors = 心所. 〔二障義 HBJ 1.805c 〕 (Skt. caitasa, caitasika, caitasikaḥ...dharmaḥ; Tib. sems las byung ba'i chos) [resp. Charles Muller]
All "things" are divided into the two classes of physical 色 and mental 心; that which has 質礙 substance and resistance is physical, that which is devoid of these is mental; or the root of all phenomena is mind 緣起諸法之根本者爲心法. The exoteric and esoteric schools differ in their interpretation: the exoterics hold that mental ideas or "things" are 無色無形 unsubstantial and invisible, the esoterics that they 有色有形 have both substance and form. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 589

Bulgyo sajeon, 521a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 623c

Record of Mazu: Baso no goroku (Iriya), 37-1

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 341

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 769b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1404

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0462

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)1015b,1736b,1745a,1898c,1999c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 882-2, 883-1*123-1-18*568-1-5*735-1-4

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

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 151

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 542

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