Vijñāna
Indic term for ideas related to discernment, mind/consciousness, life force, etc. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vijñāna (Sanskrit: विज्ञान) or viññāṇa (Pali: विञ्ञाण)[1] is translated as "consciousness", "life force", "mind",[2] or "discernment".[3]
Translations of Vijñāna | |
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English | discernment (Hinduism & Buddhism); understanding, knowledge (Hinduism); consciousness, mind, life force (Buddhism) |
Sanskrit | विज्ञान (vijñāna) |
Pali | विञ्ञाण (viññāṇa) |
Burmese | ဝိညာဉ် (MLCTS: wḭ ɲɪ̀ɰ̃) |
Chinese | 識 (T) / 识 (S) (Pinyin: shí) |
Japanese | 識 (shiki) |
Khmer | វិញ្ញាណ (UNGEGN: vĭnhnhéan) |
Korean | 식/識 (sik) |
Sinhala | විඥ්ඥාන |
Tibetan | རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ (sna'i rnam par shes pa) |
Tagalog | ᜊᜒᜈᜀᜈᜀ (binana) |
Thai | วิญญาณ (RTGS: winyan) |
Vietnamese | 識 (thức) |
Glossary of Buddhism |
The term vijñāna is mentioned in many early Upanishads, where it has been translated by terms such as understanding, knowledge, and intelligence.[4][5]
In the Pāli Canon's Sutta Pitaka's first four nikāyas, viññāṇa is one of three overlapping Pali terms used to refer to the mind, the others being manas and citta.[6][7][8] Each is used in the generic and non-technical sense of "mind" in general, but the three are sometimes used in sequence to refer to one's mental processes as a whole.[9] Their primary uses are, however, distinct.[10]