名みょう色しき

noun

name and form; namarupa

Buddhist technical term for the combination of mental and physical phenomena that constitute an individual existence; the fourth link in the twelve-linked chain of dependent origination (十二因縁).

See also: 十二因縁

• 十じゅう二に因いん縁ねんでは、名みょう色しきは識しきに続つづく第だい四しの支し分ぶんである。

  In the twelve-linked chain of dependent origination, name-and-form is the fourth link following consciousness.