gocara (5840)

gocara
Entry 5840, Page 215, Col. 1

(gocara, gocara)
gocara¦, m., (1) as in Skt., scope, range: Laṅk 1.11 svacitta-dṛśya-gocara-parijñāna-, knowledge of what has as its scope things perceptible to their own minds (Suzuki, …the objective world as the manifestation of their own Mind, which is not what the words say); pratyātma-gati- gocaram, what has as its scope the course of the individual self, Laṅk 4.16; 5.5; 7.8, 11; atra gambhīre buddha- gocare Śikṣ 174.9, in regard to this profound sphere (range, scope) of the Buddha(s); similarly tathāgatagocarābhirataḥ LV 180.13; dhyāna-gocarāṇāṃ…laukikasamādhīnāṃ LV 244.4; etc., common, but hardly transcending Skt. limits; (2) (also quite close to Skt. usage, but closer to Pali locutions), association, the range of persons with whom one associates; in comp. or parallel with ācāra, right con- duct; so also in Pali, ācāra-gocara-(dvandva! as all comms. agree; PTSD wrongly)-saṃpanna, perfect in conduct and personal associations, fully explained Vism. 17 f., where proper gocara is defined as avoiding the company of immoral persons, kings and courtiers, heretics, and im- pious families; so in SP 275.6 a Bodhisattva must be ācāra- gocara-pratiṣṭhita, fixed in (right) conduct and associations, which, as the following makes clear, means (besides good conduct, ācāra) avoidance of kings and courtiers, heretics, worldlings, or even followers of the Hīnayāna (276.1--11, in response to 275.11 katamaś ca…bodhisattvasya… gocaraḥ); in this sense, saṃtoṣaṇīyā me sabrahmacāriṇo, yad uta tena tenācāra-gocara-samudācāreṇeti nihatamāno bhavati (does samudācāra, as third member of the cpd., mean address, manner of speaking to people?) Śikṣ 150.21; prob. also saṃgaṇikayāpi vivekagocaraḥ Śikṣ 202.20, even with company, he is in association with solitude, i.e. he is not contaminated or distracted by crowds; (3) (= Pali id.) sustenance, provisions, food; particularly used (as in Pali) of food for monks: supriyā śrāvastīm abhisam- [Page215-b+ 71] prasthitā gocaravyavalokanārthaṃ Av ii.9.1; (pātracī- varam ādāya) śrāvastīṃ gocarāya prasthitaḥ 114.9; gocara-grāma (= Pali °gāma), sustenance-village, a vil- lage where food is supplied to monks, Mv ii.123.19; 127.14; 129.1; 130.4; 131.4; LV 248.9 (read °grāmaṃ with ms. A for ed. °grāmāṃ); 255.3; 267.12; Av ii.145.3; 164.6. Cf. also gocarika (1).