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nāmarūpa

Mind & theory Building on it Stage 4 of 8

The interplay of mental naming (feeling, perception, intention, contact, attention) and bodily form — together with consciousness the basic structure of experience.

On the path: 4 · How experience arises — What is it we call a person and a world? The five aggregates, the sense fields, contact, feeling, craving, clinging — not-self as a first introduction. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of two · Fully understanding · DN 33 · dn33:1.9.4

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Passages where nāmarūpa occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Pāli commentaries · mahāvaggaṭṭhakathā · Pāli

evaṃ dvinnaṃ phassānaṃ visuṃ visuṃ paccayaṃ dassetvā idāni dvinnampi tesaṃ avisesato nāmarūpapaccayataṃ dassetuṃ – ‘‘yehi ānanda ākārehī’’ti catutthaṃ pañhaṃ ārabhi| yadidaṃ nāmarūpa nti yaṃ idaṃ nāmarūpaṃ, yaṃ idaṃ chasupi dvāresu nāmarūpaṃ, eseva hetu eseva paccayoti attho| cakkhudvārādīsu hi cakkhādīni ceva rūpārammaṇādīni ca rūpaṃ, sampayuttakā khandhā nāmanti evaṃ pañcavidhopi so phasso nāmarūpapaccayāva phasso| manodvārepi hadayavatthuñceva yañca rūpaṃ ārammaṇaṃ hoti, idaṃ rūpaṃ| sampayuttadhammā ceva yañca arūpaṃ ārammaṇaṃ hoti, idaṃ arūpaṃ nāma| evaṃ manosamphassopi nāmarūpapaccayā pha
Tipiṭaka · nidda1 · Pāli

Viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpa nti idha vedanāsaññāsaṅkhārakkhandhā nāmaṃ, cattāri mahābhūtāni catunnañca mahābhūtānaṃ upādāyarūpaṃ rūpaṃ. Abhāvakagabbhaseyyakānaṃ aṇḍajānañca paṭisandhikkhaṇe vatthudasakaṃ kāyadasakanti vīsati rūparūpāni, tayo ca arūpino khandhāti ete tevīsati dhammā ‘‘viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpa’’nti veditabbā. Sabhāvakānaṃ bhāvadasakaṃ pakkhipitvā tettiṃsa, opapātikasattesu brahmakāyikādīnaṃ paṭisandhikkhaṇe cakkhusotavatthudasakāni jīvitindriyanavakañcāti ekūnacattālīsa rūparūpāni, tayo ca arūpino khandhāti ete bācattālīsa dhammā ‘‘viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpa’’nti veditabbā. Kāmabhave pana sesaopapātikānaṃ, saṃsedajānaṃ vā sabhāvakaparipuṇṇāyatanānaṃ paṭisandhikkhaṇe …
Mahāyāna sūtras · Nidānasaṃyukta · Sanskrit

NidSa 10.8b sa evaṃ parimī mā ṃ samāno jānāti | ṣaḍāyatana ṃ nāmarūpanidānaṃ nāmarūpa sa mudayaṃ nāmarūpajātīya ṃ n ām arūpa prabhavam | nāmarūpaṃ ce t sarveṇa sarvaṃ sarva thā sa r va m apariśe ṣa ṃ nirudhyetāpariśeṣam adhyastaṃ parikṣayaṃ pa ryādānaṃ gacchet ṣaḍāyatana m apy asya nirudhyeta |
Śaivism · śrīkarabhāsya · Sanskrit

ūrṇasya paraśivabrahmaṇaḥ prāksṛṣṭeḥ rekatvāvadhāraṇaṃ ca nāmarūpavibhāgābhāvādupapadyate | taditthaṃ tarhyavyākṛtamāsīttannāmarūpābhyāṃ vyākriyata iti hi nāmarūpa vibhāgabhāvābhāvābhyāṃ nānātvaikatve vadantīti | ya tu avidyopādhikaṃ jīvatvaṃ vadanti ye ca pāramārthikopādhikṛtaṃ ye ca sanmātrasvarūpaṃ brahma svayameva bhoktṛbhogyaniyantṛrūpeṇa tridhāvasthitaṃ vadanti | sarvepyete'vidyāśakterupādhiśakterbhoktṛbhogyaniyantṛśaktīnāṃ ca pralayakāle'vasthāne'pi tadānīmekatvāvadhāraṇaṃ nāmarūpavibhāgābhāvādevopapādayanti | vaiṣamyanaighṛṇye na sāpekṣatvāt na karmāvibhāgāt iti sūtrābhyāṃ jīvabhedasya

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