Self-awareness
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Self-awareness (Skt. svasaṃvedana; Tib. རང་རིག་, rang rig, Wyl. rang rig)
The term is used in the sutras, yet also in the Nyingma tantras were it has a slightly different meaning.
Alternative Translations
- Reflexive awareness (Padmakara, Adornment of the Middle Way)
- Self-awareness (Padmakara, Adornment of the Middle Way)
- Self-cognizing awareness
- Self-perception
- Self-presenting awareness (Kapstein)
- Self-knowing mind (Padmakara, Adornment of the Middle Way)
- Self-knowing consciousness (Padmakara, Adornment of the Middle Way)
- Self-reflexive awareness (John Dunne)
- Apperception
- Apperceptive self-consciousness
For rang rig as used in the Nyingma Tantras
- Natural awareness