- མངོན་པར་འདུ་བྱེད་པ།
- འདུ་བྱེད་རྣམས།
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- mngon par ’du byed pa
- ’du byed rnams
- saṃskāra
- saṁskāra
- Term
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the skandhas, it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination, it is the second, “formation” or “creation,” referring to activities with karmic results.
As the fourth of the five aggregates, this refers to formative factors, such as mental activity and volition, which are concomitant with the production of karmic seeds that cause and condition future saṃsāric existence.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The meaning of this term varies according to context; as one of the skandhas, it means “various mental activities.” In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination it is the second, “formation” or “creation”: activities with karmic results.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Predispositions; conditioning (as in “conditioned existence”) in general; also the fourth aggregate, that of volition.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
One of the five aggregates; formative forces concomitant with the production of karmic seeds causing future saṃsāric existence.
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the five aggregates, it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve links of dependent origination, it is the second, referring to activities with karmic results leading to future saṃsāric existence. This term may also refer to composite objects or conditioned things in the generic sense.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
One of the five aggregates.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Fourth of the five aggregates, second of the twelve links of dependent origination, and in the context of the aggregates sometimes also called “volitions,” “volitional formations,” or “compositional factors,” these are complex propensities that bring about action.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
One of the five aggregates; formative forces concomitant with the production of karmic seeds causing future samsaric existence.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The fourth of the five aggregates that constitute a living being (form, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness).
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
One of the five aggregates, they are formative forces concomitant with the production of karmic seeds causing future saṃsāric existence.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
One of the five aggregates, second of the twelve links of dependent origination, and in the context of the aggregates sometimes also called “volitions,” “volitional formations,” or “compositional factors,” these are complex propensities that bring about action. This term may also refer to composite objects or conditioned things in the generic sense.
- formation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
- 行
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the skandhas it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination it is the second, “formation” or “creation,” referring to activities with karmic results.
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the skandhas it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination it is the second, “formation” or “creation,” referring to activities with karmic results.
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the skandhas it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination it is the second, “formation” or “creation,” referring to activities with karmic results.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Factors involved in the perpetuation of conditioned existence; in the scheme of the twelve links of dependent origination, formations constitute the second link.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
As one of the five aggregates and the second of the twelve links of dependent arising, these are complex propensities that bring about actions. This term may also refer to composite objects or conditioned things in the generic sense.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The second link of the twelve links of dependent origination.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Patterns of karma involved in the perpetuation of conditioned existence; in the scheme of the twelve links of dependent origination, “formations” constitute the second link.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The second link of dependent arising. The fourth of the five aggregates.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
In its most general usage this term refers to any phenomenon has been formed, conditioned, or dependently brought into being. It is this broad use of the term that is used in the Bhavasaṅkrāntisūtra when King Bimbisāra asserts that “formations are empty” (UT22084-063-007-52). The same term is also used to describe the second of the twelve links of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda) and also the fourth of the five aggregates, where the term has a more specific usage related to those teachings.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the aggregates, it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination, it is the second, “formation” or “creation,” referring to activities with karmic results.
- formations
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The Sanskrit term saṃskāra varies according to context. It literally means something that “causes aggregation” or “causes to be put together.” In a general sense it refers to any phenomenon that comes into being on the basis of causes and conditions. In more specific usage it is also the term describing the fourth of the five aggregates and the second of the twelve links of dependent origination. Although both of these latter uses have their own technical contexts, in both cases the term carries a more active and volitional aspect and refers to the formative factors, mental volitions, and other supporting factors that perpetuate birth in saṃsāra.
Anything, mental or physical, that arises from causes and conditions.
- conditioned things
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
This term refers to composite objects in the generic sense. In other contexts, it can also refer to “formations.”
- formative predisposition
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Second of the twelve links of dependent origination. This term denotes the deep-seated predispositions inherited from past actions and experiences, some of which function in association with mind, while others do not. Formative predispositions are critical to the Buddhist understanding of the causal dynamics of karma and conditioning. It is the collection of such countless predispositions by afflicted mental states that constitutes the obscuration of misconceptions concerning the known range of phenomena, the total eradication of which occurs only when full enlightenment or buddhahood is achieved.
- formative predisposition
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The fourth of the five aggregates.
- saṃskāra
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The fourth of the five skandhas, often rendered as “formations,” “karmic formations,” or “volitional formations.” These are the very subtle karmic tendencies that shape an individual’s saṃsāric experience.
- saṃskāra
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The fourth of the five skandhas, often rendered as “formations,” “karmic formations,” or “volitional formations.” These are the very subtle karmic tendencies that shape an individual’s saṃsāric experience.
- volitional factors
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Fourth of the five aggregates and the second of the twelve links of dependent origination. These are the formative factors, mental volitions, and other supporting factors that perpetuate future saṃsāric existence.
- volitional factors
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Fourth of the five aggregates and the second of the twelve links of dependent origination. These are the formative factors, mental volitions, and other supporting factors that perpetuate future saṃsāric existence.
- assembled factor
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṁskāra
In its broadest sense, the term saṁskāra includes all impermanent entities when understood as causes. The prefix sam is here understood as indicating “coming together” or “assembling,” while the root kṛ means “to produce,” “to create.”
- compounded phenomena
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
- conditioned phenomena
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Also translated here as “conditioning mental factors.”
- conditioned state
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
- conditioned states
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
All conditioned states or factors which in turn collectively make up ordinary states of being.
The meaning of this term varies according to context. As one of the skandhas, it refers to various mental activities. In terms of the twelve phases of dependent origination, it is the second, “formation” or “creation,” referring to activities with karmic results.
- conditioning mental factors
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Also translated here as “conditioned phenomena.”
- formative factors
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The various conditioning factors and circumstances that affect rebirth, including primarily (but not only) karma. Formative factors also constitute one of the five aggregates and figure as one of the links in the twelve links of dependent arising to account for how karma eventually leads to rebirth.
- formative predispositions
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
Fourth of the five aggregates; also second of the twelve links of dependent origination. This term denotes the deep-seated predispositions inherited from past actions and experiences, some of which function in association with mind, while others do not. Formative predispositions are critical to the Buddhist understanding of the causal dynamics of karma and conditioning. It is the collection of such countless predispositions by afflicted mental states that constitutes the obscuration of misconceptions concerning the known range of phenomena, the total eradication of which occurs only when full awakening or buddhahood is achieved.
- karmic dispositions
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
One of the five aggregates; the very subtle karmic tendencies that give shape to an individual’s saṃsāric experience. In Abhidharma literature there are typically fifty-one saṃskāras.
- karmic predispositions
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
This term denotes the deep-seated predispositions inherited from past actions and experiences, some of which function in association with mind, while others do not. Karmic predispositions are critical to the Buddhist understanding of the causal dynamics of karma and conditioning. It is the collection of such countless predispositions by afflicted mental states that constitutes the obscuration of misconceptions concerning the known range of phenomena, the total eradication of which occurs only when full awakening or buddhahood is achieved.
The reactive patterns of the mind.
- mental formations
- འདུ་བྱེད་རྣམས།
- ’du byed rnams
- saṃskāra
The second of the twelve links of dependent origination. See “dependent origination.”
- mentation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
The meaning of this term varies according to context; as one of the skandhas it means the entire array of negative, positive, and neutral mental activities.
- motivation
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra
See “aggregate.”
- volitional effort
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- ’du byed
- saṃskāra