Luminous mind
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Luminous mind (Skt: prabhāsvara-citta or ābhāsvara-citta, Pali: pabhassara citta; Tib: འོད་གསལ་གྱི་སེམས་ ’od gsal gyi sems; Ch: 光明心 guangmingxin; Jpn: 光明心 kōmyōshin; Kor: kwangmyŏngsim) is a Buddhist term which appears only rarely in the Pali Canon, but is common in the Mahayana sūtras[1][2][3][4][excessive citations] and central to the Buddhist tantras.[5][6][7] It is variously translated as "brightly shining mind", or "mind of clear light" while the related term luminosity (Skt. prabhāsvaratā; Tib. འོད་གསལ་བ་ ’od gsal ba; Ch. guāng míng; Jpn. kōmyō; Kor. kwangmyōng) is also translated as "clear light"[8] or "luminosity"[9] in Tibetan Buddhist contexts or, "purity" in East Asian contexts.[10]
The Theravada school identifies the "luminous mind" with the bhavanga, a concept first proposed in the Theravāda Abhidhamma.[11] The later schools of the Mahayana identify it with bodhicitta and tathagatagarbha.[12][13] The luminosity of mind is of central importance in the philosophy and practice of the Buddhist tantras,[14] Mahamudra,[15] and Dzogchen.[16]