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ཟས་རྣམ་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
ཟས་རྣམ་པ་བཞི།
zas rnam pa bzhi
caturāhāra
- Term
- Four kinds of food
- ཟས་རྣམ་པ་བཞི།
- zas rnam pa bzhi
- caturāhāra
The four types of food on which beings subsist: coarse food, the food of contact, the food of volition, and the food of joy.
- Four kinds of sustenance
- ཟས་བཞི།
- zas bzhi
- catvārāhārāḥ
The four kinds of sustenance are the sustenance of material ingestion, the sustenance of contact, the sustenance of will, and the sustenance of consciousness.
- Four nourishments
- ཟས་བཞི།
- zas bzhi
- caturāhāra
The four nourishments comprise the nourishment of food, the nourishment of sensory contact, the nourishment of mentation, and the nourishment of consciousness, the first two of which are directed toward the present life and the last two to the subsequent life. See Negi (1993-2005): 5382 and Zhang Yisun et al (1985): 2457. See UT22084-031-002-875.