[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) › [楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789) › 2.237 # 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 2.237 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 2.237 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.237](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.237) 此明五陰自性相數非數。言數者，以色、非色各有四數，故曰「彼四陰非色」。又曰色者，四大造色各各異相，則四大不同通名為色，而色亦有四。次言有數者，即色界、無色界皆非數也，且約無色界示之，故云非無色有四數如虛空，正言無色四陰本無有四。譬如虛空超過數相，然妄想分別，言虛空是一。陰亦如是，離諸數相有無等四句。計有數相者，是凡夫所言，非諸聖賢，如云「佛身無為，不墮諸數」是也。 > This clarifies whether the svalakṣaṇa of the five skandhas is numbered or not numbered. To speak of number: because form and non-form each have four numbers, it therefore says, "those four skandhas are not form." It also says that form consists of the distinct lakṣaṇas of the four great elements and derived forms; thus the four great elements are distinct yet collectively called "form," and form also has four. Next, to say that they have no number: both the form realm and the formless realm are without number. Showing this provisionally in terms of the formless realm, it therefore says, "it is not that the non-material has the number four, just like space," directly stating that the four formless skandhas fundamentally do not have four. For example, space transcends the lakṣaṇa of number, yet through vikalpa and discrimination one says that space is one. The skandhas are also like this, free from all lakṣaṇas of number and the catuṣkoṭi of existence, nonexistence, and so on. Calculating that there is a lakṣaṇa of number is what ordinary people say, not the noble ones—as in saying "The Buddha's body is unconditioned, and does not fall into numbers." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.236](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.236) - [Next: 2.238](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.238) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789~en-mt.2.237) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo.4.16) — Classical Tibetan - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མདོ་ལས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གསུང་གི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ལེའུ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo-d108.4.18) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.237](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.237) · Pramāṇa