[Buddha-l] Dependent arising variants

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Thanks for the references, I must have missed them when I looked for 
them before. I just found some time today to look around.

Dan Lusthaus schreef:

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>>>Adhipati-pratyaya usually involves a specific list of causal factors
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>(heat,
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>>>life, male, female, etc.), most commonly a list of 22 such factors.
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>>Where did you get this, Dan?
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>The list of 22 is fairly standard, and used by many schools (Sarvastivada,
>Yogacara, etc.), so if you dig around you should be able to find a list and
>discussion. (I'm taking a page from Mike's book, and am just too lazy to
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Do you mean the 24 upaadaaruupa's?

>The Kosa, around 2.62, discusses the pratyayas, and gives this explanation
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>kāra.nākhyo ’dhipa.h sm.rta.h //2.62//
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>ya eva kāra.nahetu.h sa evādhipatipratyaya.h /
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>athiko ’ya.h pratyaya ityadhipatipratyaya.h /
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I'm still puzzled. Vasubandhu seems to see the adhipati as a kind of 
indirect cause, because he writes that the adhpatipratyaya of a dharma 
is all other dharma's, if only because none of the has obstructed it.
But when I search for other references, I get the impression that it is 
a dominating factor of consciousness, a factor that you can choose to 
meditate on or an obession that dominates all other mental factors.

Naarada MT in the Abhidhammattha Sangaha (pp. 373) writes: Adhipati – 
lit. mastery or lordship over one’s own. One of the four dominant 
factors – namely wish, thought effort and reasoning – may at one time 
causally relate itself to coexistent mental states and material 
phenomena by way of predominance.

I found in the Visuddhimagga (III 24) references to obtaining 
concentration by making one of the factors mentioned above predominant.
 Is the adhipati effective in the material plane as well? (This would 
obviously the case if your list of 22 is the 24 upaadaaruupa's.)

-- 
Erik


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