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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 (Italian)

Translation coscienza primaria
Definition

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

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