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無爲法

Readings

Pinyin: wúwéi fǎ

Wade-Giles: wu-wei fa

Hangul: 무위법

Korean MC: muwi beop

Korean MR: muwi pŏp

Katakana: ムイホウ

Hepburn: mui hō

unconditioned phenomena

Unconditioned existence. Eternal, absolute conditions separated from arising, changing and ceasing. Anything not subject to cause, condition, or dependence; out of time, eternal, inactive, supra-mundane. (Skt. asaṃskṛtā-dharmāḥ, asaṃskṛta; Tib. 'dus ma byas kyi chos) A way of describing the state of nirvāṇa, which is not subject to cause, or the principle of the condition of escape from transmigration. In contrast to conditioned existence 有爲法. In Sarvâstivāda, conditioned and unconditioned factors are considered to be impermanent and eternal respectively, each having its own isolated existence; they enumerate three: 三無爲 ākāśa, space or ether; pratisaṃkhyā-nirodha, conscious cessation of the contamination of the afflictions; apratisaṃkhyā-nirodha, unconscious or effortless cessation. 〔倶舍論 T 1559.29.169b18〕 In Yogâcāra, both are seen as two aspects of the same thing, the true nature of conditioned existence being that of the absolute existence of unconditioned factors. In the Yogâcāra scheme of cognitive factors, there are six in the category of unconditioned 六無爲. 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.6a3〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, Soothill, JEBD]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1031

Bulgyo sajeon, 226a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1200a

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 202a/225

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1313d

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0776

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4821c,1015b,189ba, (v.9-10)1058c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 568-1-13*1723-3

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