Namarupa
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Translations of Nāmarūpa | |
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Tibetan | ཎམརུཔ་ ming.gzugs |
Tagalog | namalupa |
Thai | นามรูป (RTGS: nammarup) |
Vietnamese | danh sắc |
Glossary of Buddhism |
Nāmarūpa (
Nāmarūpa is a
Nama (name) and Rupa (form) is the simple worldly identity of any form by a name both of which are considered temporal and not true identity with the nameless and formless ‘reality’ or ‘Absolute’ in Hinduism that has manifested as maya. In Buddhism the loss of all names and forms leads to the realization of the Ultimate reality of ‘Shunyatha’ or ‘Emptiness’ or Nirvana “Naked Truth” removed of Maya.
In Buddhism
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This term is used in Buddhism to refer to the constituents of a living being: nāma refers to the mental, while rūpa refers to the physical. The Buddhist nāma and rūpa are mutually dependent, and not separable; as nāmarūpa, they designate an individual being.[a] Namarupa are also referred to as the five skandhas, "the psycho-physical organism", “mind-and-matter,” and “mentality-and-materiality”.
Psycho-physical constituents
In the
"And what [monks] is name-&-form? attention: This is called name. The four great elements, and the form dependent on the four great elements: This is called form. This name & this form are, [monks], called name-&-form."[1]
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Elsewhere in the Pali Canon, nāmarūpa is used synonymously with the five aggregates.[3]
Empty of self
In keeping with the doctrine of
Part of the cycle of suffering
Nāmarūpa is the fourth of the
In Hinduism
The term nāmarūpa is used in
Nāma Rupatmak Vishva is the Vedanta (a school of
See also
- Bodymind
- : paticca-samuppāda; English: dependent arising)
- Skandha (Sanskrit; Pali: khandha; English: aggregates)
Notes
- ^ For example, Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), p. 350, entry for "Nāma" (retrieved 2007-06-20), states:
- "nāma as metaphysical term is opposed to rūpa, & comprises the 4 immaterial factors of an individual (arūpino khandhā, viz. vedanā saññā sankhāra viññāṇa...). These as the noëtic principle comb[ine]d with the material principle make up the individual as it is distinguished by 'name & body' from other individuals. Thus nāmarūpa= individuality, individual being. These two are inseparable...."
- ^ Thanissaro (1994). Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine In explaining this specific exchange between Ven. Ajita and the Buddha, Ireland (1983, 1994), n. 2 Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine states:
- This question and answer refers to the doctrine of dependent-arising (sufferingsinherent in life.
- This question and answer refers to the doctrine of dependent-arising (
References
- SN 12.2 (Thanissaro, 1997).
- ^ SLTP (n.d.), 1.1.2, Vibhańgasuttaṃ.
- ^ Rhys Davids & Stede, op cit.
- Parayanavagga, "The Questions of Ajita," verses 1036-1037
Bibliography
- Ireland, John D. (trans.) (1983). Ajita-manava-puccha: Ajita's Questions (Sn 5.1), from The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata (WH 82). Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Retrieved 2007-06-20 from "Access to Insight" (1994) at https://web.archive.org/web/20140812121236/http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.5.01.irel.html.
- Rhys Davids, T.W. & William Stede (eds.) (1921-5). The Pali Text Society’s Pali–English Dictionary. Chipstead: Pali Text Society. A general on-line search engine for the PED is available at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/.
- Sri Lanka Buddha Jayanti Tipitaka Series (SLTP) (n.d.). Buddhavaggo (SN 12.1). Retrieved 2007-06-20 from "METTANET - LANKA" at http://metta.lk/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/3Samyutta-Nikaya/Samyutta2/12-Abhisamaya-Samyutta/01-Buddhavaggo-p.html.
- Sn 5.1). Retrieved 2007-06-20 from "Access to Insight" at https://web.archive.org/web/20141226013717/http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.5.01.than.html.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of Dependent Co-arising (SN 12.2). Retrieved 2007-06-20 from "Access to Insight" at https://web.archive.org/web/20060512063953/http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn-12-002-tb0.html.