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想

Readings

Pinyin: xiǎng

Wade-Giles: hsiang

Hangul: 상

Korean MC: sang

Korean MR: sang

Katakana: ソウ

Hepburn: sō

tưởng

ideation

Perception; to conceive; conceptual thought. Conceptualization, associative thought. A concept, an idea. The symbolification of sensory data. The process by which the images of things are copied into the mind and are assigned names. The function of arising thoughts in the mind regarding shape, color, length, pleasure/pain, etc. (Pāli saññā; Skt. saṃjñā; Tib. 'du shes, shes pa, ming).
Ideation is one of the five aggregates 五蘊. In Abhidharma theory, one of the ten omnipresent factors 大地法. In Yogâcāra, one of the five omnipresent mental factors 五遍行. In this context, the Cheng weishi lun says: "The nature of ideation (saṃjñā) is the of grasping images of objects, and its function is to impute various names and words. When distinct characteristics of the object are established, then various names and words are produced accordingly." 想謂於境取像爲性。施設種種名言爲業。謂要安立境分齊相方能隨起種種名言。〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.11c23-24〕
[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]
(Skt. kalpanā; adhimucyamāna, abhiprāya, abhipreta, ākāra, upalabdhi, kalpa, kalpana, kalpayati, citta, citta-saṃkalpa, jñapti, nimitta, parikalpa, parikalpyate, prakalpayati, prakalpita, buddhi, bhāvayati, bhūyo'bhiprāyaḥ, manasi-kāra, vikalpa, vibhāvayati, visaṃjñin, saṃjñaka, saṃjñāna, saṃjñita, saṃjñitva,saṃmata, saṃmati) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 666

Bulgyo sajeon, 427a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 711c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 509

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 305a/338

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 726

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 6-P21

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 872c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 5451

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0490

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)3017a,1291a,3323c, (v.9-10)322a,1076a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 590-3*735-1-15

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

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 536

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