The three refined, or subtle conceptions, in contrast with the 六□ cruder or common concepts, in the
Awakening of Faith起信论. The three are 无明业相 "ignorance", or the unenlightened condition, considered as in primal action, the stirring of the perceptive faculty; 能见相 ability to perceive phenomena; perceptive faculties; 境界相 the object perceived, or the empirical world. The first is associated with the 体corpus or substance, the second and third with function, but both must have co-existence, e.g. water and waves. v. 六□.
