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'''Appreciation''' (Skt. ''adhimokṣa''; Tib. [[མོས་པ་]], 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]].  
'''Appreciation''' (Skt. ''adhimokṣa''; Tib. [[མོས་པ་]], [[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==
==Definitions==
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*adherence (Tony Duff)
*adherence (Tony Duff)


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Revision as of 15:51, 20 August 2017

Appreciation (Skt. adhimokṣa; Tib. མོས་པ་, 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)