Jivitindriya, Jivit-indriya, Jivita-indriya, Jivitendriya, Jīvitendriya, Jīvitindriya: 9 definitions
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
One of the Sabbacittasadharana cetasikas. Jivitindriya is a mental life. it supports citta to stay alive and to be able to function well. It also supports other co arising cetasikas and all mental activities are supported by jivitindriya cetasika without which citta and cetasikas will never arise. It maintains mental life and it arises with each arising citta.
"life faculty"; Jivitam means "life", and indriya means "controlling faculty".;
1. This cetasika sustains the life of the citta and cetasikas it accompanies.
According to the Atthasalini the characteristic of jivitindriya is "ceaseless watching", its function is to maintain the life of the accompanying dhammas, its manifestation the establishment of them, and the proximate cause are the dhamas which have to be sustained.
2. The function of jivitindriya is to maintain the life of citta and its accompanying cetasikas. It keeps them going until they fall away.
Jivitindriya is One of the Seven Universals.
Atthasalini (part IV, Chapter I, 123, 124) (See also Dhammasangani19.)
Jīvitindriya (“vitality”); s. indriya, khandha (corporeality, mental formations), Tab. II.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Jīvitendriya (जीवितेन्द्रिय, “vital organ”) refers to the one of the twenty-two faculties (indriya), according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 38. The word indriya, derived from the root id or ind, is synonymous with great power, with control. The twenty-two Dharmas in question [viz., jīvitendriya] have the characteristic of being dominant in regard to the living being (sattva) in that which concerns: his primary constitution, his distinctiveness, his duration, his moral defilement and his purification.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
jīvitindriya : ((jīvita + indriya), nt.) the faculty of life; vitality.
Jīvitindriya refers to: the faculty of life, vitality Vin. III, 73; S. V, 204; Kvu 8, 10; Miln. 56; Dhs. 19; Vism. 32, 230 (°upaccheda destruction of life), 447 (def.); DhA. II, 356 (°ṃ upacchindati to destroy life); VvA. 72;
Note: jīvitindriya is a Pali compound consisting of the words jīvita and indriya.
jīvitindriya (ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြိယ) [(na) (န)]—
[jīvita+indriya．jīvite indaṭṭhaṃ karotīti jīvitindriyaṃ．saṃ,ṭṭha,3．269．jīvantitena taṃ sampayuttakā dhammāti jīvitaṃ．anupālanalakkhaṇe indaṭṭhaṃ kāretīti indriyaṃ,jīvitameva indriyaṃ jīvitindriyaṃ．abhi,ṭṭha,1．167．mahāni,ṭṭha．128．(-abhi,ṭṭha,1．193．abhi,ṭṭha,2．118．paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,1．8va)．vibhāvanī．198．．]
[ဇီဝိတ+ဣန္ဒြိယ။ ဇီဝိတေ ဣန္ဒဋ္ဌံ ကရောတီတိ ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြိယံ။ သံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၃။၂၆၉။ ဇီဝန္တိတေန တံ သမ္ပယုတ္တကာ ဓမ္မာတိ ဇီဝိတံ။ အနုပါလနလက္ခဏေ ဣန္ဒဋ္ဌံ ကာရေတီတိ ဣန္ဒြိယံ၊ ဇီဝိတမေဝ ဣန္ဒြိယံ ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြိယံ။ အဘိ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁။၁၆၇။ မဟာနိ၊ဋ္ဌ။၁၂၈။(-အဘိ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁။၁၉၃။ အဘိ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၁၈။ပဋိသံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁။၈ဝ)။ ဝိဘာဝနီ။၁၉၈။လည်း ကြည့်။]
[Pali to Burmese]
jīvitindriya—
(Burmese text): ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြေ၊ တကွဖြစ်ဖက် ရုပ်နာမ်တရားတို့ကို အစိုးတရ စောင့်ရှောက်တတ်သော သဘောတရား။ ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြေသည် (က) နာမ်ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြေ၊ နာမ်သက်၊ ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြေစေတသိက်။ (ခ) ရုပ်ဇီဝိတိန္ဒြေ၊ ရုပ်သက်၊ ဇီဝိတရုပ်ဟူ၍ ၂-မျိုးရှိသည်။မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): The concept of vitality is a principle that governs the existence of both living beings and the nature of form. Vitality consists of (a) the vital essence of living beings, the life force, and the essence of life; (b) the vital essence of form, the life force of form, which falls into two categories. Please refer to the original for more details.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
Jīvitendriya (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 命 [mìng]: “life”.
2) 命根 [mìng gēn]: “life force”.
3) 壽命 [shòu mìng]: “life span”.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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