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mental consciousness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term mental consciousness

Referenced by:
consciousness, mental (cross-reference only)
Tibetan yid-kyi rnam-shes
Sanskrit manovijnana
Pali
Definition A primary consciousness that can take any existent phenomenon as its object and which relies on merely the previous moment of cognition as its dominating condition and not on any physical sensors.

TRANSLATIONS

German geistiges Bewusstsein
Italian coscienza mentale
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... mental consciousness; (main) perceiver
Russian умственное сознание