• Mental factors (Sanskrit: चैतसिक, romanized: caitasika or chitta samskara चित्त संस्कार; Pali: cetasika; Tibetan: སེམས་བྱུང sems byung), in Buddhism,...
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  • in Pali (Sanskrit: Prīti) is a mental factor (Pali:cetasika, Sanskrit: caitasika) associated with the development of jhāna (Sanskrit: dhyāna) in Buddhist...
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  • of this entire mass of suffering & stress.' Mental factors (Sanskrit: caitasika; Pali: cetasika; Tibetan Wylie: sems byung) are formations (Sanskrit:...
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  • dhyāna) is described as the development of five mental factors (Sanskrit: caitasika; Pali: cetasika) that counteract the five hindrances: vitakka ("applied...
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    Buddhism (Pali and Sanskrit: बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely...
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    jhāna is described as the development of five mental factors (Sanskrit: caitasika; Pali: cetasika) that counteract the five hindrances: vitakka ("applied...
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  • closer look at the various divisions of dharmas, in particular citta and caitasika, with its conjoined and non-conjoined aspects. As it is not mentioned...
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  • 心所法としては四類四十法のみを掲げ……この二書だけ一致しているということは(There are forty mental factors (caitasika) in these four Sarvastivada Abhidharma texts: Prakaranapada, Mahavibhasa...
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  • and schemas were introduced, such as the differentiation of cittas and caitasikās and new ways of connecting or relating the various elements with each...
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  • This theory was used to explain karma and rebirth. The doctrine that caitasikas (mental factors) are but modes of citta (mind) and are not separate elemental...
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  • characteristics, nature and functions of the various dharmas, especially the caitasika and citta-viprayukta-dharmas. The sevenfold system bears some similarities...
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    phenomenon of consciousness. Its main characteristic is cognizing an object. Caitasikas (46 types) refers to "thought-concomitants", mental events or "associated...
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  • second chapter of this text enumerates fifty-one mental factors (Sanskrit: caitasikā), divided into the following categories: five ever-functioning factors...
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  • is to group by type. Thus, dharmas are assigned as either rūpa, citta, caitasika or citta-viprayukta, the conditioned dharmas, and the unconditioned dharmas...
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  • mental factors (caitasikas). Harivarman argues against the common Abhidharma idea of "association" (samprayoga) which held that caitasikas and citta were...
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