大乘起信論 · 名相Glossary
摩訶衍
Mahāyāna
大乘
the Great Vehicle
眾生心
the mind of sentient beings
一心
the one mind
真如
suchness
二門
the two aspects
心真如門
the aspect of mind as suchness
心生滅門
the aspect of mind as arising and ceasing
三大
the three greatnesses
體大
greatness of substance
相大
greatness of mark
用大
greatness of function
如來藏
Tathāgata-womb
法身
dharma-body
阿梨耶識
the ālaya consciousness
本覺
original awakening
始覺
initial awakening
不覺
non-awakening
相似覺
semblance awakening
隨分覺
partial awakening
究竟覺
ultimate awakening
離念
free from thought
無明業相
the mark of ignorance-as-activity
能見相
the mark of the seeing
境界相
the mark of the object-realm
智相
the mark of discrimination
相續相
the mark of continuity
執取相
the mark of grasping
計名字相
the mark of reckoning names and words
起業相
the mark of giving rise to karma
業繫苦相
the mark of the suffering bound by karma
業識
the karmic consciousness
轉識
the evolving consciousness
現識
the manifesting consciousness
智識
the discerning consciousness
相續識
the continuing consciousness
分別事識
the object-discriminating consciousness
執相應染
the defiled mind of grasping, associated
不斷相應染
the defiled mind of unceasing continuity, associated
分別智相應染
the defiled mind of discriminating knowing, associated
現色不相應染
the defiled mind of manifesting form, unassociated
能見心不相應染
the defiled mind of the seeing mind, unassociated
根本業不相應染
the defiled mind of the root activity, unassociated
淨法
the pure dharma
無明
ignorance
妄心
the deluded mind
妄境界
the deluded object-realm
熏習
perfuming
真如熏習
the perfuming of suchness
無明熏習
the perfuming of ignorance
四種信心
the four kinds of faith
五門
the five gates of practice
施門
the gate of giving
戒門
the gate of the precepts
忍門
the gate of forbearance
進門
the gate of vigor
止觀門
the gate of calming and contemplation
止觀
calming and contemplation
真如三昧
the samādhi of suchness
一行三昧
single-practice samādhi
勝方便
the surpassing expedient