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'''Mind''' translates several Sanskrit and Tibetan terms, including ''citta'' (Tib. [[སེམས་]] ''[[sem]]'', [[Wyl.]] ''sems''), ''buddhi'' (Tib. [[བློ་]] ''lo'', Wyl. ''blo'') and ''manas'' (Tib. [[ཡིད་]] ''yi'', Wyl. ''yid'').
'''Mind''' translates several Sanskrit and Tibetan terms, including ''citta'' (Skt.; Tib. [[སེམས་]] ''[[sem]]'', [[Wyl.]] ''sems''), ''buddhi'' (Skt.; Tib. [[བློ་]] ''lo'', Wyl. ''blo'') and ''manas'' (Skt.; Tib. [[ཡིད་]] ''yi'', Wyl. ''yid'').


In ''[[Illuminating the Mind]]'', [[Khenpo Pema Sherab]] gives the definition of mind (Wyl. ''shes pa'')
In ''[[Illuminating the Mind]]'', [[Khenpo Pema Sherab]] gives the definition of mind (Wyl. ''shes pa''):
*Tib. གསལ་ཞིང་རིག་པ་ཤེས་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད།
*Tib. གསལ་ཞིང་རིག་པ་ཤེས་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད།
*The defining characteristic of mind is clarifying and cognizing.
*The defining characteristic of mind is clarifying and cognizing.

Revision as of 11:26, 2 September 2016

Mind translates several Sanskrit and Tibetan terms, including citta (Skt.; Tib. སེམས་ sem, Wyl. sems), buddhi (Skt.; Tib. བློ་ lo, Wyl. blo) and manas (Skt.; Tib. ཡིད་ yi, Wyl. yid).

In Illuminating the Mind, Khenpo Pema Sherab gives the definition of mind (Wyl. shes pa):

  • Tib. གསལ་ཞིང་རིག་པ་ཤེས་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད།
  • The defining characteristic of mind is clarifying and cognizing.

An example

  • Tib. མཚན་གཞི་བུམ་འཛིན་མིག་ཤེས་ལྟ་བུ།
  • For example, an eye consciousness apprehending a vase