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specific awareness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term specific awareness

Referenced by:
consciousness, specific (cross-reference only)
awareness, specific (cross-reference only)
specific consciousness (alternative term)
Tibetan rnam-shes
Sanskrit vijnana
Pali
Definition In the Karma Kagyu system, the aspect of mental activity that is aware of the specific type of awareness of an object that has arisen and the specific object that it is aware of. In a looser sense, awareness of the details that have arisen and one is aware of in a cognition.

TRANSLATIONS

German spezifisches Gewahrsein
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... [diverse-know]; consciousness; main consciousness; [ordinary] consciousness{N}; knower; cognition
Russian уточняющее осознавание