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five kinds of a hundred dharmas
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五位百法

According to the doctrines of Fa-hsiang sect, there are five kinds of Dharmas, which is further subdivided into one hundred Dharmas. The five kinds are:

  1. Mind/Consciousness (citta/vijñāna in Sanskrit) ( 心法 ) -- 8 Dharmas
  2. Concomitant Mental Faculties (caitasika or citta-saṃprayukta-saṃskāra in Sanskrit) ( 心所法 ) -- 51 Dharmas
  3. Form (rūpa in Sanskrit) ( 色法 ) --11 Dharmas
  4. Dharmas neither form nor mental functions (citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra in Sanskrit) ( 心不相應法 ) -- 24 Dharmas
  5. Unconditioned Dharmas (asaṃkṛta) (無為法 ) - 6 Dharmas

The first four are Conditioned Dharmas, while the last one is Unconditioned Dharma.

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