One-hundred dharmas of the Lucid Introduction

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One-hundred dharmas are enumerated in the Lucid Introduction to the One Hundred Dharmas (Mahāyāna śatadharmā-prakāśamukha śāstra),[1] a text by Vasubandhu in the Yogacara tradition.

These 100 dharmas are:[1]

I. Mind (citta-dharma)

II. Mental factors (caitta, caitasika-dharma)

III. Form (rupa-dharma)

IV. Embodied-conditioning Not Directly [perceived] by Citta (citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra-dharma)

  • Twenty-four types of non-concurrent formations (aka "conditioned forces dissociated from thought" (Buswell))
  1. (karmic) Accrual, prāpti, 得
  2. Life-force, jīvitendriya, 命根
  3. Commonalities by species, nikāya-sabhāga, 衆同分
  4. Differentiation of species, visabhāga, 異生法
  5. Attainment of Thoughtlessness, asaṃjñi-samāpatti, 無想定
  6. Attainment of Cessation, nirodha-samāpatti, 滅盡定
  7. [realm of] Thoughtless [beings], asaṃjñika, 無想果
  8. 'Name' body, nāma-kāya, 名身
  9. 'Predicate' body, pada-kāya, 句身
  10. 'Utterance' body, vyañjana-kāya, 文身
  11. Birth/arising, jāti, 生
  12. Continuity/abiding, sthiti, 住
  13. Aging/decaying, jarā, 老
  14. Impermanence, anityatā, 無常
  15. Systematic Operation, pravṛtti, 流轉
  16. Determinant (karmic) Differences, pratiniyama, 定異
  17. Unifying, yoga, 相應
  18. Speed, jāva, 勢速
  19. Seriality, anukrama, 次第
  20. Area (space), deśa, 方
  21. Time, kāla, 時
  22. Number/calculation, saṃkhyā, 數
  23. Synthesis, sāmagrī, 和合性
  24. Otherwiseness, anyathātva, 不和合性

V. Unconditioned Dharmas (asaṃskṛta-dharmas)

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lusthaus, Dan, The One Hundred Dharmas


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