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: the twelve marks of non-concentration display concentration by contrast

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-perceptionA non-Buddhist attainment in which the six arising consciousnesses temporarily cease; 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 · medicine · the Science of Reasoning · grammar · 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 four afflictions (ignorance · identity-view · self-conceit · self-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-conduct typeThe solitary victor formed through the second and third trainings

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 bodhisattva lineage is twofold: the lineage abiding by nature — superiority of the six sense-bases, transmitted from beginningless time, naturally obtained; and the cultivated lineage — obtained through previously habituated wholesome roots

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 basisThe affliction-obstacle is forever quiescent, while the basis of slight suffering has not yet ceased; the aggregates of the final body remain (the final basis)

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 basisThe afflictions are exhausted, the remaining basis ceases as well, and the manifold sufferings are forever quiescent (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 basisAfflictions and suffering are forever cut off, and the suchness thereby disclosed is attained (the true uncontaminated realm)

vessel of the DharmaThe capacity able to hold the teaching; in this book, extended to mean the attention and concentration that the contemporary reader has repaired.