瑜伽師地論 · 名相Glossary

The fivefold body of consciousnessThe cluster of the five consciousnesses — eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body; "body" (身) bears the sense of a cluster

Intrinsic nature · support · object · accompanying aids · activityThe five-item motif: the consciousness's own nature · what it leans upon · the object it cognizes · the co-arising mental factors · the consciousness's activity — five questions asked of each consciousness, the outline of the whole stage

The seed supportThe third of the three supports: the support that holds and stores the seeds, i.e. "the store consciousness subsumed under maturation" — the first appearance of the ālaya in the whole treatise

The store consciousnessSubsumed under maturation · the all-seeds consciousness; the seed support of the five consciousnesses

MindThe sense of accumulating-and-arising: the store consciousness — that upon which all seeds rest and follow, able to appropriate, subsumed under maturation

MentationThe sense of cogitation: the constantly-operating mentation (the seventh, manas) and the just-ceased-without-interval mentation of the six consciousness-bodies

ConsciousnessThe sense of cognizing: that which presently cognizes the object-sphere before it (the first six of the arising consciousnesses)

The mental factorsThe full listing of the Mental stage's mental factors in the classes of omnipresent · object-specific · wholesome · affliction · secondary affliction · indeterminate

The three catastrophesThe establishment of the receptacle world: the marks of the destruction-kalpa's three catastrophes of fire, water, and wind

Applied and sustained thoughtApplied thought = coarse mental ranging; sustained thought = subtle examining — the three stages take their boundaries from the presence or absence of these

The five designationsThe outline of these three stages: the fivefold establishment of the Designations of Elements · of Characteristics · of Attention in accord with principle · of Attention contrary to principle · of the Arising of Defilement

Naraka (the hell destiny)The hell destiny; subsumed under the Designation of Elements

The ten causesPredication · dependence · drawing-in · arising · appropriation · inducing · fixed distinction · joint action · contradiction · non-contradiction

The four conditionsThe causal condition (the seed) · the immediately-antecedent · the objective-support · the dominant

The five fruitsThe maturational · the outflowing · disjunction · a person's effort · the dominant

Meditative equipoise"Evenly drawn" (等引): the general name of the stage of superior concentration in which the concentrated mind is even and balanced and able to draw forth excellent qualities

The meditative absorptionsThe four dhyānas: the superior concentrations of the form realm in which concentration and wisdom stand in even balance

ConcentrationOne-pointedness of mind; the concentration that runs through both the concentrated and the scattered [states]

The meditative attainmentThe concentration-substance present through all the states of concentration, with mind and without mind

One-pointedness of mindThe mind fixed one-pointedly upon its object; the essential character of concentration

Non-equipoiseThe general name of the unconcentrated stage: through twelve aspects, set against what counters them, concentration is displayed

PliancyThe pliant workableness of body and mind; by the presence or absence of pliancy the concentrated and the unconcentrated are divided

The afflictions' latent proclivitiesThe afflictions' seeds lying latent; because the latencies are not yet cut off, [the state] is not equipoise

The Stage with Mind / the Stage without MindThe stages in which mind (the arising consciousnesses) operates and does not operate; distinguished by an establishment through five gates

The arising consciousnessesThe first seven consciousnesses; what ceases in the mindless states is the arising consciousnesses alone

The attainment of no-perceptionThe non-Buddhist concentration that extinguishes the perception of the first six consciousnesses; one of the mindless states

The attainment of cessationThe noble concentration that extinguishes feeling and perception; one of the mindless states

The realm of nirvāṇa without remaining basisThe stage without mind in the ultimate sense: only in this realm does even the store consciousness forever cease

The five sciencesThe Inner Science · the Science of Reasoning · grammar · medicine · the crafts — the full curriculum of the wisdom attained through hearing

Sūtra (the discourses)The discourses · the linking-scriptures; one of the Inner Science's three baskets

Vinaya (the discipline)The discipline; one of the Inner Science's three baskets

Mātṛkā (the matrix-mother)The matrix-mother · the abhidharma; one of the Inner Science's three baskets

The word-, phrase-, and syllable-collectionsThe three classes of signifiers — word, phrase, and syllable; that on which grammar rests

(The wisdom) attained through reflectionThe wisdom born from reflection, which resolves the characteristics of phenomena; the second of the three wisdoms

Intrinsic purityThe substance of the wisdom of reflection: the nine aspects of pure and well-purified reflection

Specific / common characteristicPhenomena of specific characteristic (the mark of own-substance) · phenomena of common characteristic (the pervading mark) — the measuring-rule for the reflective discernment of the characteristics of phenomena

Phenomena of fictitious characteristicEstablished by the six kinds of verbal expression; existent by fictitious positing

The Verses on the Ultimate MeaningOne of the three sets of verses: gāthās spoken in dependence on the no-self of the person (pudgala)

Over-affirmation / under-denialTo cling that there is a self-function = over-affirmation; to deny away the dharma-nature as nonexistent = under-denial — the two extreme clingings

The defiled mentation (manas)The seventh consciousness, arising and ceasing ever together with the four afflictions (delusion · view · conceit · love); brought out in the prose exposition of the Verses on the Ultimate Meaning

(The wisdom of) cultivationSubsumed under equipoise (samādhi); "cultivation" bears the sense of realization; the wisdom born from cultivation is named the wisdom of cultivation

The four lociThe locus of cultivation · the causes-and-conditions of cultivation · the yoga of cultivation · the fruit of cultivation — the four loci of meaning by which cultivation reaches fullness

The seven branchesThe perfection of birth · the perfection of hearing the true Dharma · having nirvāṇa as the foremost · the maturing of the liberation-ripening wisdom · the cultivation of the antidotes · the worldly purity of all kinds · the world-transcending purity of all kinds

Entry into the direct realization of the noble truthsThe first gate of the world-transcending purity

The adamantine-like concentrationThe concentration, last within the learner's rank, able to cut off the obstruction

LineageThe seed-dharma for the realization of nirvāṇa; that on which the one who abides in the lineage rests

ElementAn alternate name of lineage: the sense of cause (because it can give rise to manifest activity)

NatureAn alternate name of lineage: the sense of substance-nature

The person (pudgala)"One who repeatedly takes up the destinies": the sentient being who goes again and again to take up the destinies — established class by class in the Second Yoga-Station

Tranquillity / insightStilling (one-pointedness of mind · calm quiescence) / observing (discriminative discernment · wisdom-contemplation) — the twin rails of tranquillity-and-insight in the Third Yoga-Station

Mindfulness of in-and-out breathingMindfulness of the in-and-out breath (Kuiji's phonetic gloss: āna, "carrying in" = the in-breath; apāna, "carrying out" = the out-breath)

The nine abidings of mindThe nine successive steps from inward abiding to concentration (等持), the whole course of the path of śamatha

The pratyekabuddhaThe middle vehicle of the three: one who appears in a world without a buddha and awakens of himself without a teacher (Jinaputra: middle practice, middle fruit)

The rhinoceros-horn typeThe first-practice pratyekabuddha: purely solitary in his awakening, delighting to dwell in the lonely forest

The group-dwelling typeThe solitary victor of the second and third practices: one who formerly dwelt within a community

The six skillsThe six skills — in the aggregates · sense-bases · elements · dependent origination · the possible-and-impossible · the truths — what the pratyekabuddha path cultivates

[The wholesome roots] conducive to penetrationThe preparatory wholesome roots before the path of seeing (heat · summit · forbearance)

Lineage (of the bodhisattva)The uncontaminated seed able to bring forth the fruit of the Great Vehicle; of two kinds — innately abiding (present of itself, by the nature of things) and cultivated (arisen from the perfuming of hearing and from practice)

Arousing the mindThe very first arousing of the mind · the first right vow · the vow that gathers all other vows; aroused by the four conditions, four causes, and four powers

The real meaningThe such-as-it-is nature (the true nature of phenomena) together with the exhaustive-extent nature (the entirety of phenomena); four kinds by class

The ineffable intrinsic nature / the provisionally-spoken intrinsic natureThe nature of phenomena that is not as words speak it (neither existent [as spoken] nor wholly nonexistent) / the nature clung to as existent through reckoning that follows provisional speech — the outline of the Chapter on the Real Meaning

InvestigationThe seeking-and-pondering not yet decided; the four investigations = of name · of the thing · of the provisional positing of intrinsic nature · of the provisional positing of distinction

The twelve dwellingsThe Chapter on Dwellings of the Bodhisattva Stage: from the dwelling of lineage to the dwelling of the topmost consummate fulfillment of a bodhisattva, gathering the course of all the grounds

[Nirvāṇa] with remaining basisAffliction, karma, and suffering already stilled; only the aggregates of the final body still remaining (Jinaputra: subsumed under fruit)

The four quiescencesThe four quiescences — of suffering · of the afflictions · of not harming sentient beings · of equanimity — the marks of the Stage with Remaining Basis

The eight basesThe eight bases: designation · appropriation · sustaining · transmigration · obstruction · affliction-and-distress · delight · the final

The final basisThe aggregates in the continuum of the arhat, bearing the final body

[Nirvāṇa] without remaining basisAffliction, karma, and suffering exhausted; the remaining basis extinguished as well; the manifold sufferings forever stilled (Jinaputra: "the stage of nirvāṇa without remaining basis")

The twofold quiescenceThe quiescence of stillness · the quiescence of freedom from harm-and-distress

The alternate names of quiescenceThe innumerable alternate names — constant · enduring · long-abiding · unchanging, and so on — nirvāṇa designated through its alternate gates

The transformation of the basisTurning away from and relinquishing the basis that is the afflictions; turning toward and attaining what suchness discloses