捨

Readings

Pinyin: shě

Wade-Giles: she

Hangul: 사

Korean MC: sa

Korean MR: sa

Katakana: シャ

Hepburn: sha

xả

to abandon

• To neutralize. Indifference, inattention, equanimity (Skt. upekṣā, upekṣaka, upekṣakatva, upekṣaṇa, upekṣêndriya; Tib. btang snyoms). One of the chief Buddhist virtues, that of renunciation, leading to a state of "indifference without pleasure or pain" (Keith), or independence of both. Also seen expressed as 舍. The mind in a state of equilibrium 平等, i.e. above the distinction of things or persons, of self or others; indifferent, having abandoned the world and all things and having no affections or desires. One of the seven bodhyaṅgas. The mental condition of not feeling pleasure or pain, not perceiving things as good or evil. An unbiased viewpoint. One of the four unfathomable minds 四無量心; one of the ten virtuous elements in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya, one of the eleven good function factors in Yogâcāra theory. 捨受 is the sensation of neither pleasure nor pain. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): YBh-Ind]
• Relinquishment (Skt. tyāga; Tib. gtong ba). To throw away, relinquish, give up, discard, forsake, renounce (Skt. nikṣipati). [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Stephen Hodge]
• To be pushed or driven away, repudiated, expelled, banished, rejected, removed. (Skt. nirākṛta, nirākṛti) [resp. Charles Muller]
• To abandon mistaken views; the cessation of evil actions by a religious practitioner; to discard evil and attachment. [resp. Charles Muller]
• Not striving, as a result of indifference. [resp. Charles Muller]
• Syn. with 無顧 and 無顧戀. [resp. Charles Muller]
• Translit. sa, śa, s(r). [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. parityāga, prahāṇa, varjayati; agaha, agraha, atirikta, adhy-upêkṣ; adhyupekṣaṇa, adhyupekṣaṇā, adhyupekṣya, apakarṣaṇa, apagama, apaniya, apaviddha, apavidhya, apahāya, apahāra, apahṛta, apāsya, apeta, apratisaṃkhyāya, amanasikāra, avakṣepaṇa, asakta, uccarita, uccālayati, uttīrṇa, utsarga, utsarjana, utsṛjya, utsṛṣṭa, utsṛṣṭavat, uddhata, uddharaṇa, uddhāra, kṣaya, cyuti, cheda, chorayati, tyakta, tyajana, tyajyate, tyāgatā, dātṛ, dāna, dīyate, nāśana, nikṣipta, nikṣiptṛ, nikṣepa, nikṣepaṇa, nigraha, niyūha, nirapekṣa, nirapekṣatā, nirākaraṇa, nirākaraṇatā, nirodha, nirodhayati, nirmṛṣa, niryātayati, niryūha, nirvartya, nirhāra, nivartayati, niveśikā, nisṛja, nisṛṣṭa, nissariya, nissargika, niḥsaraṇa, niḥsaritvā, nihata, naiḥsargika, parāṅ-mukha, paritayakta, parityaktavya, parityaja, parityajyate, parityāgitā, parityāgin, parityājya, parivarjana, parihāra, prakṣeptavya, pratinissareya, pratinissarga, pratiniḥsareya, pratiniḥsarga, pratipraśrabdhi, pratiprasrabdhya, pratiprasrambhaṇa, prativigata, prativinodayati, prativiramaṇatā, pratyākhyāta, pratyākhyāna, pratyācakṣāṇa, pratyudāvartya, pratyuddhāra, pratyosareya, praśama, prasrabdhi, prahāya, prahīṇa, bheda, mukta, muci, mucyate, vikīrṇa, vijahanā, vidveṣa, vinirmukta, vinivartana, vinivṛtta, vinodayati, vipakṣika, vipācanā, viyoga, virakta, virahita, virodhayati, vivarjana, vivarjayati, vivarta, vivartayati, vivṛta, visarga, visarjayitvā, visṛjana, vihāni, vihāya, vihīna, vihīyate, vyavasarga, vyāvartana, vyāvartayati, vyāvartayitavya, vyāvartita, vyāvartya, vyāvartyate, vyāvṛta, vyāvṛttatva, vyāvṛtti, vyudāsa, vyupekṣyamāṇa, śāntatā, śāntā, saṃlīyate, saṃlekha, saṃvibhāga, samatikrama, samupekṣa, samupekṣaka, sṛjana, *sopekṣa, sthāpanīya, sraṃsayati, hāni Pāli upekkhā; Tib. btang snyoms) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 471

Bulgyo sajeon, 351a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 3822

Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), 269

Lokakṣema's Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima), 412

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