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| − | [[File:Deer.jpg|thumb|250px|]] | + | #REDIRECT [[Dhamma vicaya]] |
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| − | In [[Buddhism]], [[dhamma vicaya]] ([[Pali]]; [[Sanskrit]]: [[Dharma-vicaya]]) has been variously translated as the "[[analysis of qualities]]," "[[discrimination of dhammas]]," "[[discrimination of states]]," "[[investigation of doctrine]]," and "[[searching the Truth]]." This concept implies applying discernment to things in order to deliver one from [[ignorance]] and [[craving]].
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| − | In the [[Pali canon]]'s [[Sutta Pitaka]], this is the second of the [[Seven Factors of Enlightenment]] ([[satta bojjhaṅgā]]). It is preceded by the establishment of [[mindfulness]] ([[sati]]) and leads to [[energy]] ([[viriya]]), [[rapture]] ([[Pīti]]), [[tranquillity]] ([[passaddhi]]), [[concentration]] ([[samadhi]]) and [[equanimity]] ([[upekkha]]). According to the [[Samyutta Nikaya]], this factor is to be developed by paying continuous careful attention (yoniso manasikāra bahulīkāro) to the following states ([[dhammā]]): wholesome and unwholesome (kusalā-akusalā); blameable and blameless (sāvajjā-anavajjā); inferior and superior (hīna-paṇītā); and, [[evil]] and good (kaṇha-sukka).An alternate explanation in the [[nikayas]] is that this factor is aroused by "discriminating that Dhamma with wisdom" (taṃ dhammaṃ paññāya pavicināti).
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| − | The [[Abhidhamma]]'s [[Dhammasaṅgaṇi]] even more strongly associates [[dhamma vicaya]] with [[paññā]] ([[wisdom]]) in its enumeraton of wholesome states (kusalā dhammā):
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| − | What on that occasion is the faculty of [[wisdom]] (paññindriyaṃ)?
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| − | The [[wisdom]] which there is on that occasion is understanding, search, research, searching the [[Truth]]....
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| − | where "searching the [[Truth]]" is C.A.F. {{Wiki|Rhys Davids}}' translation of dhammavicayo.
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| − | In later [[Abhidhamma]] texts and in post-canonical literature (such as those by the 4th-century CE Indian scholar [[Vasubandhu]]), [[dhamma vicaya]] refers to the study of [[dhamma]] as physical or [[mental]] [[phenomena]] that constitute [[absolute reality]] (Pali: [[paramattha]]; Skt.: [[paramārtha]]).
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| − | </poem>
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Latest revision as of 08:52, 25 July 2013
