[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [淨名玄論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780) › 5.3 # 淨名玄論 5.3 淨名玄論 5.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780.5.3) 智非孤生，必由境發，故境為智本；境非獨立，因智受名，故之智為境本。非境無以發智，非智無以照境。非境無以發智，故境為能發、智為所發；非智無以照境，故智為能照、境為所照。以境為能發，為智所照，即境能為智所；智為能照，為境所發，即智能為境所。境之所照，能發於智，故境所為智能；智之所發，能照於境，故智所為境能。不得言境前智後，亦非智前境後，亦非一時，唯得名因緣境智也。 > Cognition does not arise in isolation; it must be brought forth by an object. Therefore the object is the root of cognition. The object does not stand independently; it receives its designation on account of cognition. Therefore cognition is the root of the object. Without the object, there would be nothing to bring forth cognition; without cognition, there would be nothing to illuminate the object. Because without the object there is nothing to bring forth cognition, the object is that which can bring forth, and cognition is that which is brought forth. Because without cognition there is nothing to illuminate the object, cognition is that which can illuminate, and the object is that which is illuminated. Since the object is that which can bring forth and is illuminated by cognition, the object's being that which can \[bring forth\] constitutes the object of cognition. Since cognition is that which can illuminate and is brought forth by the object, cognition's being that which can \[illuminate\] constitutes the object of the object. That which is illuminated by the object can bring forth cognition; therefore that which the object \[illuminates\] is cognition's capacity. That which is brought forth by cognition can illuminate the object; therefore that which cognition \[brings forth\] is the object's capacity. One cannot say that the object is prior and cognition is posterior, nor that cognition is prior and the object posterior, nor that they are simultaneous; they can only be named conditioned object and cognition. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780.5.2) - [Next: 5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780.5.4) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780~en-mt.5.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1780.5.3) · Pramāṇa