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

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