Appreciation
Appreciation (Skt. adhimokṣa; Tib. མོས་པ་, möpa, Wyl. mos pa) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the five object-determining mental states.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. མོས་པ་ནི་ངེས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ་འཛིན་པ་མི་འཕྲོག་པའི་བྱེད་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
- Appreciation means apprehending a determined entity as it is. Its function is not to lose the object. (Rigpa Translations)
- Interest means holding on to the certain form of a determined object. Its function is to not lose the object. (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Alternative Translations
- interest (David Karma Choepel, Erik Pema Kunsang)
- resolve (Gyurme Dorje)
- adherence (Tony Duff)