Jīvitendriya
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Jīvitendriya (T. srog gi dbang po; C. ming gen 命根), or life-force, "is taken to be the life of beings or persons and is said to be the basis for either heat or consciousness."[1]
Jīvitendriya is identified as:
- one of the fourteen non-concurrent formations within the Sanskrit Abhidharma tradition
- one of the twenty-two faculties within the Sanskrit Abhidharma tradition
"Among classical Buddhist scholars, there are some who maintain a distinction between life-force [jīvitendriya] and life [jīvita]."[1]
Alternate translations
- Life-force (Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics)
- Life faculty
- Vitality (Buswell, appendix)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Thupten Jinpa (editor), Ian James Coghlan (translator), Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Volume 1: The Physical World (Wisdom: 2017), 143
Further reading
- Thupten Jinpa (editor), Ian James Coghlan (translator), Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Volume 1: The Physical World (Wisdom: 2017), 143-146