Advertence: Directing of mind to the object: āvajjana is one of the functions of consciousness viññāna-kicca. Cf. manasikāra

Anupubba-nirodha: The 9 ‘successive ceasings’, are the 8 ceasings reached through the 8 absorptions jhāna and the ceasing of feeling and perception’ see: nirodha-samāpatti, as it is said in …

Bhavanga-sota: and Bhavanga-citta: The first term may tentatively be rendered as the ‘undercurrent forming the condition of being, or existence’, and the second as ‘subconsciousness’, though …

Cakkhu-viññāna: ‘visual-consciousness’ see: viññāna.

Cetasika: ‘mental things, mental properties’, are those mental properties which are bound up with the simultaneously arising consciousness citta = viññāna and conditioned by its presence. Wh …

Citta-kkhana: ‘consciousness-moment’, is the time occupied by one single stage in the perceptual process or cognitive series cittavīthi see: viññāna-kicca This moment again is subdivided in …

Citta: ‘mind’, ‘consciousness’, ‘state of consciousness’, is a synonym of mano and viññāna see: khandha and Tab. 1. Dhs divides all phenomena into consciousness citta mental properties *ce …

Citta-vīthi: ‘process of consciousness’; see: viññāna-kicca

[[cognitive series]]Cognitive series: see: viññāna-kicca

[[consciousness: viññāna]]Consciousness: viññāna see: khandha citta mano q v - Moment of °: citta-kkhana Contemplation of °: cittānupassanā: satipatthāna - Materiality produced by °: *c …

Cuti-citta: ‘death-consciousness’, lit. ‘departing consciousness’, is one of the 14 functions of consciousness viññāna-kicca.

visual-consciousness: cakkhu-viññāna see: dhātu, khandha

[[fivefold sense-door]]Fivefold sense-door: Directing to the: pañcadvārāvajjana see: viññāna-kicca.

[[functional consciousness]]Functional consciousness: or consciousness functioning independently of kamma: kiriya - citta, see viññāna-kicca

[[functions of consciousness]]Functions of consciousness: viññāna-kicca.

Gotrabhū: lit. ‘who has entered the lineage of the Noble Ones’, i.e. the Matured One.

I. ‘change-of-lineage-Moment’ gotrabhū - citta is the last of the 4 impulse moments javana cf. *viñ …

Hadaya-vatthu: ‘heart as physical base’ of mental life. The heart, according to the commentaries as well as to the general Buddhist tradition, forms the physical base vatthu of consciousness In …

Hasituppāda-citta: lit. ‘consciousness producing mirth’ smile, is found in the Abhidhammattha Sangaha as a name for the joyful mind-consciousness element manoviññāna - dhātu Tab. I. 72 aris …

[[investigating function]]Investigating function: of consciousness: santīrana see: viññāna-kicca

Javana: fr. javati to impel: ‘impulsion’, is the phase of full cognition in the cognitive series, or perceptual process citta-vīthi see. viññāna-kicca occurring at its climax, if the respe …

Jhāna: ‘absorption’ meditation refers chiefly to the four meditative absorptions of the fine-material sphere rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara - jjhāna avacara They are achieved through the att …

Paccaya: ‘condition’, is something on which something else, the so-called ‘conditioned thing’, is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one o …

Paticcasamuppāda: ‘dependent origination’, is the doctrine of the conditionality of all physical and psychical phenomena, a doctrine which, together with that of impersonality anattā, forms the …

Patisandhi: lit. ‘reunion, relinking’, i.e. rebirth, is one of the 14 functions of consciousness viññāna-kicca. It is a kamma-resultant type of consciousness and arises at the moment of concep …

Pañcadvārāvajjana: ‘directing to the 5-sense-doors’; see: viññāna-kicca

Tadārammana-citta: ‘registering consciousness’ see: Tab. I, 40-49, 56, is the last stage in the complete process of cognition citta-vīthi immediately before sinking into the subconscious. It do …

Ti-lakkhana: the ‘3 charactcristies of existence’, or signata, are impermanency anicca, suffcring or misery dukkha see: sacca, dukkhatā no-self anattā.

Whether Perfect Ones appear in th …

Āhāra: ‘nutriment’, ‘food’, is used in the concrete sense as material food and as such it belongs to derived materiality see: khandha Summary I. In the figurative sense, as ‘foundation’ or susta …

Āvajjana: Directing of the mind towards the object, is the first stage in the process of consciousness see: viññāna-kicca. If an object of the 5 physical senses is observed, it is called ’five\ …

*Āyatana:
* 1: Spheres, is a name for the four formless absorptions; see: jhāna 5-8.
2: The 12 sources or bases on which depend the mental processes, consist of five physical sense-organs an …

Āyūhana: K ammic accumulation, is a name used in the commentarial literature for the advantageous and disadvantageous intentional activities kamma or kammic-constructions sankhāra (see: *paticc …