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dividing consciousness

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term dividing consciousness
Tibetan rnam-shes
Sanskrit
Pali
Definition A consciousness that makes dualistic appearances, dividing a moment of experience into an appearance of independently existing consciousness (subject) and object. It is a Kagyu/Nyingma explanation. The Tibetan is rnam-shes, the same as the usual word for consciousness. It is defined like this only in some very special places.

TRANSLATIONS

German Unterteilungen machendes Bewusstsein
French conscience divisante
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... [diverse-know]; consciousness; main consciousness; [ordinary] consciousness{N}; knower; cognition