[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) › [大乘起信論略述](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813) › 1.148 # 大乘起信論略述 1.148 大乘起信論略述 1.148 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.148) 論。名為意識至分別事識　述曰。此制立其名也。名意識者。既緣六塵。應名六識。而今就其一意識義故。不別出眼等五識。但名意識。故涅槃云。譬如一識分別說六。即此意識依於六根別取六塵故云分離。又能分別去來內外種種事相故復說名分別事識。 > Treatise: It is named mental consciousness... consciousness of discriminating phenomenal objects. > Commentary: This establishes its name. As for being named "mental consciousness": since it conditions the six dusts, it should be called the six consciousnesses; yet here, in terms of the meaning of a single mental consciousness, it does not separately bring out the five consciousnesses of the eye and so on, but is only named "mental consciousness." Therefore the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra says: "For example, a single consciousness is discriminatorily explained as six." Because this mental consciousness relies on the six sense-bases to separately apprehend the six dusts, it is said to "separate"; and because it can discriminate past and future, internal and external, various phenomenal marks, it is further named the "consciousness of discriminating phenomenal objects". > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.147) - [Next: 1.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.149) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813~en-mt.1.148) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [起信論註](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2815) — Classical Chinese - [大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.3.72) — Classical Chinese - [起信論疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1844.1.28) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.148) · Pramāṇa