[dic] rūpa (rupa)

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ATI Glossary

➥ rūpa: Body; physical phenomenon; sense datum. The basic meaning of this word is “appearance” or “form.” It is used, however, in a number of different contexts, taking on different shades of meaning in each. In lists of the objects of the senses, it is given as the object of the sense of sight. As one of the khandha, it refers to physical phenomena or sensations (visible appearance or form being the defining characteristics of what is physical). This is also the meaning it carries when opposed to nāma, or mental phenomena. [ more ]

Buddhist Dictionary

by late Ven. Nyanalokita Thera:

➥ rūpa:¹⁾ (1) corporeality (see khandha 1); (2) visual object (see āyatana); (3) fine-material (see avacara, jhāna).

PTS Dictionary

by the Pali Text Society:

Glossary Thanissaro

by Ven. Thanissaro Maha Thera:

➥ rūpa: The basic meaning of this word is “appearance” or “form.” It is used, however, in a number of different contexts, taking on different shades of meaning in each. In lists of the objects of the senses, it is given as the object of the sense of sight. As one of the khandhas, it refers to physical phenomena or sensations (visible appearance or form being the defining characteristics of what is physical). This is also the meaning it carries when opposed to nāma, or mental phenomena. The act of focusing on the level of physical and mental phenomena (literally, form and name) means focusing on the primary sensation of such phenomena in and of themselves, before the mind elaborates them further. In the list, “kāma, rūpa, a-rūpa” — the types of object that the mind can take as its preoccupation and the states of becoming that result — kāma refers to images derived from the external senses, rūpa to the internal sense of the form of the body, and arūpa to strictly mental phenomena. This last sense of rūpa is also what is meant in the term “rūpa jhāna.”

Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms

by Ven. Varado Maha Thera:

➥ rūpa:

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for rūpa:
for rūpin:
- material
for arūpa:
- the immaterial states of awareness
- immaterial plane of existence

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Illustration: rūpa, visible object; rūpaṁ, sight

I see no single visible object so attractive, so sensuous, so intoxicating, so captivating, so infatuating, so obstructive to the reaching of unsurpassed safety from [the danger of] bondage [to individual existence], as the sight of a woman.

Nāhaṁ bhikkhave aññaṁ ekarūpampi samanupassāmi yaṁ evaṁ rajanīyaṁ evaṁ kamanīyaṁ evaṁ madanīyaṁ evaṁ bandhanīyaṁ evaṁ mucchanīyaṁ evaṁ antarāyakaraṁ anuttarassa yogakkhemassa adhigamāya yathayidaṁ bhikkhave itthirūpaṁ. (AN iii 68)

Illustration: rūpa, appearance

Four persons in the world:

1) He who guages by appearance, and whose faith is inspired by appearance

rūpappamāṇo rūpappasanno

2) He who guages by voice, and whose faith is inspired by voice

ghosappamāṇo ghosappasanno

3) He who guages by asceticism, and whose faith is inspired by asceticism

lūkhappamāṇo lūkhappasanno

4) He who guages by the teaching, and whose faith is inspired by the teaching

dhammappamāṇo dhammappasanno. (AN ii 71)

Illustration: rūpa, the refined material plane of existence; arūpa, the immaterial plane of existence

Three further types of craving

Aparā pi tisso taṇhā

• craving for the sensuous plane of existence

kāmataṇhā

• craving for the refined material plane of existence

rūpataṇhā

• craving for the immaterial plane of existence.

arūpataṇhā. (DN iii 216)

There are three states of individual existence

tayo me āvuso bhavā

• individual existence in the sensuous plane of existence

kāmabhavo

• individual existence in the refined material plane of existence

rūpabhavo

• individual existence in the immaterial plane of existence

arūpabhavo. (MN i 50)

• Three further varietes of craving:

aparā pi tisso taṇhā

• craving for refined material states of awareness

rūpataṇhā

• craving for immaterial states of awareness

arūpataṇhā

• craving for the ending [of originated phenomena]

nirodhataṇhā. (DN iii 216)

Illustration: rūpa, bodily form

The four great material phenomena are the indispensible and necessary conditions by which the aggregate of bodily form is to be discerned.

Cattāro kho bhikkhu mahābhūtā hetu cattāro mahābhūtā paccayo rūpakkhandhassa paññāpanāya. (MN iii 17)

The ignorant Everyman considers bodily form to be the [absolute] Selfhood, or the [absolute] Selfhood to be corporeal, or that bodily form to be part of the [absolute] Selfhood, or that the [absolute] Selfhood to be part of bodily form.

rūpaṁ attato samanupassati rūpavantaṁ vā attānaṁ attani vā rūpaṁ rūpasmiṁ vā attānaṁ

If that bodily form changes and alters, his mind is preoccupied with the change.

Tassa taṁ rūpaṁ vipariṇamati aññathā hoti tassa rūpavipariṇāmaññathābhāvā rūpavipariṇāmānuparivatti viññāṇaṁ hoti. (MN iii 228)

Why is it called bodily form? It is harassed, therefore it is called bodily form.

Kiñca bhikkhave rūpaṁ vadetha: rūppatī ti kho bhikkhave tasmā rūpanti vuccati.

Harassed by what? By cold, heat, hunger, thirst, horseflies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, snakes.

Kena rūppati: sītena pi ruppati uṇhena pi ruppati jighacchāya pi ruppati pipāsāya pi ruppati ḍaṁsamakasavātātapasiriṁsapasamphassena pi ruppati. (SN iii 86)

If bodily form was endowed with personal qualities it would not lead to affliction and it would be possible to demand of bodily form: ‘My bodily form: be thus! My bodily form: be not thus!’

rūpañca hidaṁ bhikkhave attā abhavissa nayidaṁ rūpaṁ ābādhāya saṁvatteyya labbhetha ca rūpe evaṁ me rūpaṁ hotu evaṁ me rūpaṁ mā ahosī ti. (SN iii 66-7)

And what is the aggregate of grasped bodily form? The four great material phenomena and any bodily form derived from the four great material phenomena.

Katamo cāvuso rūpūpādānakkhandho? Cattāri ca mahābhūtāni catunnañca mahābhūtānaṁ upādāya rūpaṁ. (MN i 185)

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Appendix: the terms nipphanna-rūpa and rūpa-rūpa are used only in the Commentary, although sappaṭigha and pasāda are already found in the Abhidhamma Canon (e.g. Dhammasaṅgaṇi §§ 585, 597f.), while upādinna occurs repeatedly in the old Sutta texts, e.g. MN 28, apparently with the meaning given in the main part of this work. Cf. further upādā-rūpa.

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