Mental factors (Buddhism)

산스크리트어: kuśala-mahā-bhūmikā dharmā, 영어: virtuous mental factors, universal beautiful mental factors)은 설일체유부의 5위 75법의 법체계에서, 심소법(心所法: 46가지) 그룹[位]의 6가지

defined by way of a selection of mental concomitants called its “jhāna factors” (jhānanga). From among the many mental factors contained in each jhāna consciousness

all those karmical volitions (kamma-cetanā) and the consciousness and mental factors associated therewith, which are accompanied by 2 or 3 wholesome roots

of the ten pervasive mental factors 大地法 presented in the Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya, and one of the five omnipresent mental factors 五遍行 presented in the Cheng

(rūpa) has been totally transcended and only consciousness (citta) and mental factors (cetasika) remain. Rebirth into these four realms comes about through