- Sparśa
Sparśa (
Sanskrit ) or Phassa (Pāli ) is aBuddhist term meaning "contact" or "touching" or "sense impression".Synonyms:
*觸 or 触 Cn: "chù"; Jp: "soku"; Vi: "xúc"
*Tibetan: "reg.pa"Sparśa refers to the contact between the sense, sense-objects, and sense-consciousness for example, between eye, light and awareness of vision. In the
Pali Canon , there are six "classes" of contact: eye-contact, ear-contact, nose-contact, tongue-contact, body-contact and mind-contact. [ [http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.002.than.html Thanissaro (1997).] ]Sparśa is the sixth of the Twelve Nidānas. It is conditioned by the presence of the six sense-openings IAST|ṣaḍāyatana, and in turn is a condition for the arising of physical sensations (vedanā).
In terms of the Five Aggregates, sparśa is the "implicit" basis by which Form ("rūpa") and Consciousness ("viññāna") lead to the mental factors of Feeling ("vedanā"), Perception ("sañña") and Formations ("sankhāra").
In the
Abhidhamma and Pali commentaries, sparśa is one of the fifty-two mental factors ("cetasika"), the first of seven "sabbacitta", which are present in all classes of consciousness. [ [http://www.palikanon.com/english/intro-abhidhamma/appendix_ii.htm U Kyaw Min (n.d.), Appendix II] ]ee also
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Ayatana (sense bases)
*Skandha (aggregates)Notes
ources
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). "Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of Dependent Co-arising" (SN 12.2). Retrieved 2007-06-20 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn-12-002-tb0.html.* U Kyaw Min (n.d.). "Introducing Buddhist Abhidhamma: Meditation and Concentration". Retrieved 2007-06-21 from "Tipitaka, der Pali Kanon des Theravāda-Buddhismus" at http://www.palikanon.com/english/intro-abhidhamma/book_i.htm.
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