Imagined forms
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Imagined forms (Skt. parikalpita-rūpa; T. kun btags pa`i gzugs ཀུན་བཏགས་པའི་གཟུགས་; C. pien-chi so-ch'i se 遍計所起色).[1][2] One of the five types of forms that are mental objects, according to the Yogacara school.
The Khenjuk states:
- Imagined forms are such things as a [mental] image or dreamt forms.[3]
The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism states:
- Imagined form. The situation of the sixth consciousness, unconnected to the other five consciousnesses, reflecting on the past, or giving rise to illusory objects, such as flowers in the sky. These forms arise through the mistaken discriminatory power of the sixth consciousness.[4]
And also:
- Imaginary form. Form produced from schematizing (imputing, imagining) everywhere. Form (objects) caused by the power of the false discrimination of the sixth consciousness. To imagine things to exist that actually don't, such as the hair of a tortoise or horns of a rabbit. One of the objects of the mind that are included as material dharmas 法處所攝色 in East Asian Yogâcāra. 〔八宗綱要; 解深密經疏(圓測) HBJ 1.307b16〕 (Skt. parikalpita-rūpa; Tib. kun btags pa`i gzugs) [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, FGD][1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
遍計所起色, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
- ↑
ཀུན་བཏགས་པའི་གཟུགས་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Mipham Rinpoche 2004, s.v. Line 1.17.
- ↑ 法處所攝色, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
Sources
Mipham Rinpoche (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications
