無記

Readings

Pinyin: wújì

Wade-Giles: wu-chi

Hangul: 무기

Korean MC: mugi

Korean MR: mugi

Katakana: ムキ

Hepburn: mugi

vô ký

moral indeterminacy in karma

• Moral neutrality. One of the three qualities 三性 of all activities (karma)—distinguished from mental states that are either good 善 or evil 惡. While the latter two states cannot but bring about precise, concomitant karmic effects, indeterminate states do not have a determinable good or evil consequence. 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.5a27〕 This is distinguished into two kinds: Obstructing indeterminacy 有覆無記 and nonobstructing indeterminacy 無覆無記, and is also distinguished into indeterminacy of self-nature 自性無記 and unimpeded indeterminacy 勝義無記. (Skt. avyākṛta, nivṛta; Pāli avyākata; Tib. lung du ma bstan pa) [resp. cmuller; source(s): Nakamura, YBh-Ind, Hirakawa, JEBD, Iwanami]
• No response. A reference to the Buddha's silence in reply to metaphysical questions put to him by other philosophers. See 十四無記.[resp. cmuller]
• Absent-mindedness during meditation practice. [resp. cmuller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1033

Bulgyo sajeon, 216a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1202b

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 781

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 245

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 203a/226

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 14-P251, 18-P81

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1318b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 5107

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0772

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4825c,1581a,2011a, (v.9-10)1101c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1693-3

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

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

generated: 2012-11-02