• 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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    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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  • 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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    this, Yogācāra also developed an elaborate analysis of consciousness (vijñana) and mental phenomena (dharmas), as well as an extensive system of Buddhist...
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  • the Vijnana Bhairava: Air is exhaled with the sound SA and inhaled with the sound HAM. Then reciting of the mantra HAMSA is continuous — Vijnana Bhairava...
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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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    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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  • 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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    The Jnana-Vijnana Yoga (Sanskrit: ज्ञानविज्ञानयोग, romanized: Jñānavijñānayōga) is the seventh of the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter...
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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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    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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  • According to three bodies doctrine in Hinduism, the human being is composed of three shariras or "bodies" emanating from Brahman by avidya, "ignorance"...
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  • Walpola Rahula, all the elements of the Yogacara store-consciousness (alaya-vijnana) are already found in the Pali Canon. He writes that the three layers of...
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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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  • 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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  • board, Mahatma Gandhi University Curriculum Revision Committee and Vishwa Vijnana Kosham editorial board. Malayalam filmmaker Amal Neerad is his son and...
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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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  • saṅkhāra). William S Waldron (2003). The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijñana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought. Routledge. pp. 102–112. ISBN 978-1-134-42886-1...
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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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  • or formations or influences of a previous life (sanskara) discernment (vijnana). In the Theravada tradition, suffering arises when one identifies with...
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    Ashram in 1957. With Swami Lakshmanjoo he studied the ancient text of Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, and later published the 112 practices of transcending...
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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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    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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    manifestation-only (vijnapti-matrata) rather than consciousness-only (vijnana-matrata) to avoid misintepretation into a kind of idealism.[citation needed]...
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    "I-am-ness" as support. Vijnana Bikshu (ca. 1550–1600) proposes a six-stage model, explicitly rejecting Vacaspati Misra's model. Vijnana Bikshu regards joy...
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  • dhyana and Shukla dhyana. Dharma dhyana is discriminating knowledge (bheda-vijñāna) of the tattvas (truths or fundamental principles), while shukla dhyana...
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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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    Japanischen Kultur, 7 Boisvert correlates vijnana in the twelve nidanas sequence; in the five skandhas, vijnana comes last. Jurewicz (2000), Playing with...
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