• Vijñāna (Sanskrit: विज्ञान) or viññāṇa (Pali: विञ्ञाण) is translated as "consciousness", "life force", "mind", or "discernment". The term vijñāna is mentioned...
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  • common" – the existence of the first six primary consciousnesses (Sanskrit: vijñāna, Tibetan: རྣམ་ཤེས་, Wylie: rnam-shes). The internally coherent Yogācāra...
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  • Manas-vijnana (Skt. "'मानस-विज्ञान"'; mānas-vijñāna; "mind-knowledge", compare man-tra, jñāna) is the seventh of the eight consciousnesses as taught in...
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    The Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra (VBT, sometimes spelled in a Hindicised way as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a Shiva Tantra, of the Kaula Trika tradition of Kashmir...
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    the ālaya-vijñāna is an important element of ignorance (avidya). The ālaya is also individual, so that each person has their own ālaya-vijñāna, which is...
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  • store consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) and Buddha nature (tathāgatagarbha) in Yogācāra. To avoid reification of the ālaya-vijñāna, The logico-epistemological...
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    The term Jnana-Vijnana Yoga is a combination of the Sanskrit words jñāna (also transcribed gyana), which means 'knowledge', vijñāna (also transcribed...
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  • around goddess Kali's head. The mantra Aham ("I am"), as laid out in the Vijñāna Bhairava represents the first अ(a) and last ह(ha) phonemes of the Sanskrit...
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  • or "vital force"), a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson in 1907 Vijñāna (translated as "consciousness," "life force", "mind" or "discernment Life...
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    Bhakti Vijnana Goswami (IAST: Bhakti Vijñāna Gosvāmī; born as Vadim Tuneev, 30 August 1956, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru and a leader...
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    International School Sri Kumarans Children's home(SKCH) Composite PU college Jnana Vijnana Vidya Peeta Maharaja Agrasen Hospital (Bangalore) D.G Hospital Yogananda...
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  • another. The majority of Buddhist traditions, in contrast, assert that vijñāna (a person's consciousness) though evolving, exists as a continuum and is...
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    symbols, are: Avidyā ignorance Saṅkhāra conditioning of mind unknowingly Vijñāna not being conscious Nāmarūpa name and form (constituent elements of mental...
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  • Vijnanabhiksu (redirect from Vijnana Bikshu)
    McGready, ed., New York: Harper Collins, 1995, pp. 248–251. A General Idea of Vijñāna Bhikṣu’s Philosophy, Surendranath Dasgupta, 1940 Chapter one of Vijnanabhiksu's...
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    Pulse diagnosis (redirect from Nadi Vijnana)
    Pulse diagnosis is a diagnostic technique used in Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Mongolian medicine, Siddha medicine, traditional...
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    (1991). The Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment: A Translation of the Vijnana-bhairava with an Introduction and Notes by Jaideva Singh. State University...
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    perceptions (samjna), mental activity or formations (sankhara), consciousness (vijnana). They form part of other Buddhist teachings and lists, such as dependent...
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  • Chaitanya (consciousness) Chakra Scientific skepticism Qi Men Dun Jia Vijñāna Yoga Sutra "Prana". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2015-04-22. Rama, Swami (2002)...
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  • a Buddha. This idea was integrated with the Yogacara-idea of the ālaya vijñāna, and further developed in Chinese Buddhism, which integrated Indian Buddhism...
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    constituency: Horamavu Rama- murthy Nagar Vijnana pura K R Puram Devasandra A.Narayanapura Basavana pura Vijnana Nagar HAL Airport K R Puram K R Puram comes...
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    Krishna as the highest form of yoga. Translators title this chapter as Jnana–Vijnana yoga, Religion by Discernment, Wisdom from Realization, or The Yoga of...
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    ālaya-vijñāna originally meant defiled consciousness: defiled by the workings of the five senses and the mind. It was also seen as the mūla-vijñāna, the...
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    other six dhatus (beginning with earth and ending with vijñana) but is closest to akasa and vijñana. One cannot visualize it, it is anidarsana, but it provides...
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  • (1991). The Yoga of delight, wonder, and astonishment: a translation of the Vijñāna-bhairava. SUNY Press. p. 143 ff. ISBN 978-0-7914-1073-8. reprinted and...
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    as abstractions or inner principles: Ānanda (bliss, inner contentment), Vijñāna (knowledge), Manas (mind, thought), Prāṇa (life-force), Vāc (speech), Ātmā...
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    petals, presided by Hamsa Devata, and Susumna Sakti. It corresponds to the Vijñāna state and Anupama Vak, and to the half matra of the Pranava." It is said...
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    subcategory of the Kulamārga. Another important text of this tradition is the Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra, which focuses on outlining numerous yogic practices. Kashmir...
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    Yogacara-thought, cognition is a modification of the base-consciousness, alaya-vijnana. According to the Lankavatara Sutra and the schools of Chan/Zen Buddhism...
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  • samkhya-pravachana sutram, with the vritti of Aniruddha, and the bhasya of Vijnana Bhiksu and extracts from the vritti-sara of Mahadeva Vedantin; tatva samasa;...
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  • being (mahad bhūtam) without an end, boundless (apāra), [is] nothing but vijñāna [consciousness]." Idealist notions can be found in different schools of...
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