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primary consciousness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term primary consciousness

Referenced by:
consciousness, primary (cross-reference only)
Tibetan rnam-shes
Sanskrit vijnana
Pali
Definition Within a cognition of an object, the awareness of merely the essential nature of the object that the cognition focuses on. Primary consciousness has the identity-nature of being an individualizing awareness.

TRANSLATION (German)

Translation Primärbewusstsein
Definition Dasjenige Gewahrsein bei der Wahrnehmung eines Objekts, das lediglich die wesentliche Natur des Objekts zum Inhalt hat. Das Primärbewusstsein hat die Identitäts-Natur eines individualisierenden Gewahrsein.

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

German Primärbewusstsein
Italian coscienza primaria
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... [diverse-know]; consciousness; main consciousness; [ordinary] consciousness{N}; knower; cognition
Russian первичное сознание