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滅盡定

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Basic Meaning: concentration of total cessation

Senses:

  • The meditative attainment of total cessation (Skt. nirodha-samāpatti; Tib. 'gog pa'i snyoms par 'jug pa). An extremely deep state of meditative concentration where both sensory and conceptualizing mental functions are completely extinguished, one of the six states of mental inactivity 無心位. When this concentration is attained, the manovijñāna 意識 is also extinguished, which enables the practitioner to be reborn into the highest heaven. This concentration has the power to extinguish mental functions in the first six consciousnesses 六識 as well as the afflicted manas 染汚末那 (seventh conciousness), it is said to be the concentration practiced by sages. Since low-level practitioners and non-Buddhists are afraid to extinguish their individuality, they do not enter this concentration of complete extinction, but instead can only attain, at best, thoughtless concentration 無想定 (asaṃjñī-samāpatti), considered in Yogâcāra to be an inferior state of concentration. It is also called the 'concentration of extinguishing feeling and perception;' this concentration can occur based on the seeds of disillusioned mind 厭心種子. It is one of the fourteen dharmas not concomitant with the mind 心不相應行法. Also translated by Xuanzang as 滅受想定. Also called 滅心定, 滅定, 無緣三昧, and 滅盡三昧. 〔 成唯識論 T 1585.31.23c29〕 (Skt. nirodha-samāpanna, ubhayato-bhāga-vimukta, ubhaya-bhāga-vimukta, nirodha, nirodhâkhya; Tib. 'gog pa'i snyoms 'jug) [Charles Muller, Stephen Hodge; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
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    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1051

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1219c

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 234

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 196b/219

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1358b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5509

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0740

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4860a,1017a,3674c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1733-2*736-2-21

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2020-04-25