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• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1685  + (one of the seven types of knowledge and awareness; for others see: [[blo rig]])
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1467  + (one of the six synonyms of permanent phenomenon (rtag pa) according to B-7; for others see: rtag pa. Not to be confused with 'objects that appear to thought' (yul de rtog pa la snang ba) (GD:547))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/986  + (one of the three divisions of knowledge and awareness (blo rig) according to the three-fold division)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1253  + (one of the three types of knowledge and awareness (blo rig) according to the threefold division)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1727  + (one of the two types of Hearer path of no more learning (nyan thos kyi mi slob lam); the other is Hearer exalted knower that has gradual objects of abandonment (spang bya rim gyis pa'i dgra bcom pa'i mkhyen pa))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1726  + (one of the two types of Hearer path of no more learning (nyan thos kyi mi slob lam); the other is Hearer exalted knower that has gradual objects of abandonment (spang bya cig char ba'i dgra bcom pa'i mkhyen pa ))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1725  + (one of the two types of paths of release of a Hearer's path of meditation; the other is: done in terms of a person who has simultaneous objects of abandonment (spang bya cig char ba'i dbang du byas pa))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1724  + (one of the two types of paths of release of a Hearer's path of meditation; the other is: done in terms of a person who has gradual objects of abandonment (spang bya rim gyis pa'i dbang du byas pa))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1908  + (one of the two types of permanent phenomenon; the other is permanent phenomenon whose occurrence is not possible (yin pa mi srid pa'i rtag pa) an illustration is: object of knowledge (shes bya))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/155  + (one of the types of knowledge and awareness (blo rig) according to the sevenfold division; for others see: [[blo rig]])
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/545  + (one of the types of knowledge and awareness according to the threefold division)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/716  + (other-knower; an other-knower is a consciousness which engages external objects (i.e. objects other than internal consciousnesses))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1631  + (pliancy; Comment: This is one of the eleve … pliancy; Comment: This is one of the eleven virtuous mental factors (sems byung dge ba, kuzalacaitta): (1) faith (dad pa, zraddhA); (2) shame (ngo tsha shes pa, hrI); (3) embarrassment (khrel yod pa, apatrApya); (4) non-attachment (ma chags pa, alobha); (5) non-hatred (zhe sdang med pa, adveSa); (6) non-ignorance (gti mug med pa, amoha); (7) effort (brtson 'grus, vIrya); (8) pliancy (shin tu sbyangs pa, prasrabdhi); (9) conscientiousness (bag yod pa, apramAda); (10) equanimity (btang snyoms, upekSA); (11) non-harmfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).mfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/789  + (pratigha; anger; Comment: This is one of t … pratigha; anger; Comment: This is one of the six root afflictions (rtsa nyon, mUlakleza): desire ('dod chogs, rAga); (2) pratigha (khong khro, pratigha); (3) pride (nga rgyal, mAna); (4) ignorance (ma rig pa, avidyA); (5) doubt (the tshom, vicikitsA); (6) afflicted view (lta ba nyon mongs can, kliSTa-dRSTi). Compare zhe sdang (hatred) and khro ba (belligerence).sdang (hatred) and khro ba (belligerence).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/25  + (rAga; Comment: This is one of the six root … rAga; Comment: This is one of the six root afflictions (rtsa nyon, mUlakleza): desire ('dod chogs, rAga); (2) anger (khong khro, pratigha); (3) pride (nga rgyal, mAna); (4) ignorance (ma rig pa, avidyA); (5) doubt (the tshom, vicikitsA); (6) afflicted view (lta ba nyon mongs can, kliSTa-dRSTi).iew (lta ba nyon mongs can, kliSTa-dRSTi).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1870  + (real conventional truth; Comment: From within objects and subjects, the translation for objects is "real conventional truth"; for subjects it is "correct conventional truth.")
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1269  + (see: rang rgyalComment: D#en-b#a-d#en-dzin explains (rang sangs rgyas) as meaning (rang gi don du sangs rgyas thob 'dod pa) "wanting to achieve buddhahood for one's own sake.")
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1626  + (shin tu sbyangs pa; Comment: This is one o … shin tu sbyangs pa; Comment: This is one of the eleven virtuous mental factors (sems byung dge ba, kuzalacaitta): (1) faith (dad pa, zraddhA); (2) shame (ngo tsha shes pa, hrI); (3) embarrassment (khrel yod pa, apatrApya); (4) non-attachment (ma chags pa, alobha); (5) non-hatred (zhe sdang med pa, adveSa); (6) non-ignorance (gti mug med pa, amoha); (7) effort (brtson 'grus, vIrya); (8) pliancy (shin tu sbyangs pa, prasrabdhi); (9) conscientiousness (bag yod pa, apramAda); (10) equanimity (btang snyoms, upekSA); (11) non-harmfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).mfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1740  + (spyi'i mtshan nyid; Comment: This term is … spyi'i mtshan nyid; Comment: This term is used in two markedly different ways, generally characterized phenomenon and general character. Generally characterized phenomena (spyi mtshan) are solely permanent phenomena such as uncompounded space ('dus ma byas kyi nam mkha'). However, general characteristic, or general character, (spyi'i mtshan nyid) refers to a character of an object that is shared with other objects; for instance, impermanence is a general characteristic of consciousness (shes pa) and is also a general characteristic of form (gzugs). Similarly, specifically characterized phenomena (rang mtshan) are solely impermanent phenomena such as consciousness (shes pa) and form (gzugs), but the specific characteristic, or specific character, (rang gi mtshan nyid) of an object is its own definining character such as that which is luminous and knowing (gsal zhing rig pa), which is the definition of consciousness (shes pa), an impermanent phenomena; and the non-affirming negative which is a mere negation of obstructive contact (thogs reg bkag tsam gyi med dgag), which is the definition of uncompounded space, a permanent phenomena.uncompounded space, a permanent phenomena.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1351  + (these are: knowledge of the past lives of oneself and others; supernatural insight into future mortal conditions; and knowledge that one has overcome all afflictions and that this is one's final birth\nWhat's the Tibetan for these? (T))
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1871  + (true establishment is one of the five objects of negation in the SvAtrantika system, and one of the eight in the PrAsaGgika system; for others see: [[dgag bya]])
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/525  + (ultimate truths are understood in differen … ultimate truths are understood in different ways by the various Buddhist systems; see definition headingComment: The Sanskrit for "ultimate truth," paramArthasatya, is etymologized three ways within identifying parama as "highest" or "ultimate," artha as "object," and satya as "truth." In the first way, parama (highest, ultimate) refers to a consciousness of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness; artha (object) refers to the object of that consciousness, emptiness; and satya (truth) also refers to emptiness in that in direct perception emptiness appears the way it exists; that is, there is no discrepancy between the mode of appearance and the mode of being. In this interpretation, a paramArthasatya is a "truth-that-is-an-object-of-the-highest-consciousness." In the second way, both parama (highest, ultimate) and artha (object) refer to a consciousness of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness in that, in the broadest meaning of "object," both objects and subjects are objects, and a consciousness of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness is the highest consciousness and thus highest object; satya (truth), as before, refers to emptiness. In this second interpretation, a paramArthasatya is an emptiness that exists the way it appears to a highest consciousness, a "truth-of-a-highest-object." In the third etymology, all three parts refer to emptiness in that an emptiness is the highest (the ultimate) and is also an object and a truth, a "truth-that-is-the-highest-object." ChandrakIrti, the chief Consequentialist, favors the third etymology in his Clear Wordsors the third etymology in his Clear Words)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/276  + (upekSA; Comment: This is one of the eleven … upekSA; Comment: This is one of the eleven virtuous mental factors (sems byung dge ba, kuzalacaitta): (1) faith (dad pa, zraddhA); (2) shame (ngo tsha shes pa, hrI); (3) embarrassment (khrel yod pa, apatrApya); (4) non-attachment (ma chags pa, alobha); (5) non-hatred (zhe sdang med pa, adveSa); (6) non-ignorance (gti mug med pa, amoha); (7) effort (brtson 'grus, vIrya); (8) pliancy (shin tu sbyangs pa, prasrabdhi); (9) conscientiousness (bag yod pa, apramAda); (10) equanimity (btang snyoms, upekSA); (11) non-harmfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).mfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/232  + (vIrya; effort; Comment: This is one of the … vIrya; effort; Comment: This is one of the eleven virtuous mental factors (sems byung dge ba, kuzalacaitta): (1) faith (dad pa, zraddhA); (2) shame (ngo tsha shes pa, hrI); (3) embarrassment (khrel yod pa, apatrApya); (4) non-attachment (ma chags pa, alobha); (5) non-hatred (zhe sdang med pa, adveSa); (6) non-ignorance (gti mug med pa, amoha); (7) vIrya (brtson 'grus, vIrya); (8) pliancy (shin tu sbyangs pa, prasrabdhi); (9) conscientiousness (bag yod pa, apramAda); (10) equanimity (btang snyoms, upekSA); (11) non-harmfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).mfulness (rnam par mi 'tshe ba, avihiMsA).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/727  + (view of the basal state; Comment: "The view of the basal state" is in contrast to "the view in the face of knowledge" (rig ngo lta ba) — the latter being the state of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness.)

• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1500  + (etymology of sangs rgyas [awakened-spread] is one who has awakened (from the sleep of ignorance) and spread (his intellect to all objects of knowledge))

• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/845  + (A#nandagarbha; Comment: Three Indian schol … A#nandagarbha; Comment: Three Indian scholars are renowned especially for their works on Yoga Tantra, whom New Translation Schools consider the "Three People Expert/Proficient in Yoga [Tantra]" (yoga la mi mkhas pa gsum): Buddhaguhya (sangs rgyas gsang ba; fl. mid eighth century), ShAkyamitra (shA kya bshes gnyen), and A#nandagarbha (kun dga' snying po; fl. late ninth or early tenth century). D#zong-ka-b#a relies on A#nandagarbha for Yoga Tantra but criticizes his interpretation of the GuhyasamAja Tantra. interpretation of the GuhyasamAja Tantra.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1502  + (Buddha-qualities are the knowledge, attainments, methods, and teachings associated with a Buddha)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1505  + (Buddhaguhya; Comment: Three Indian scholar … Buddhaguhya; Comment: Three Indian scholars are renowned especially for their works on Yoga Tantra, whom New Translation Schools consider the "Three People Expert/Proficient in Yoga [Tantra]" (yoga la mi mkhas pa gsum): Buddhaguhya (sangs rgyas gsang ba; fl. mid eighth century), ShAkyamitra (shA kya bshes gnyen), and A#nandagarbha (kun dga' snying po; fl. late ninth or early tenth century). Buddhaguhya authored the Entry into the Meaning of the Tantra (rgyud kyi don la 'jug pa, tantrArthAvatara), as well as commentaries on Action and Performance Tantras. As an important figure in N#ying-ma MahAyoga lineages he taught Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra and authored texts.mbhava and Vimalamitra and authored texts.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/914  + (Comment: A definition from Awareness and Knowledge is: a phenomenon that limited beings must realize definitively in dependence on a sign (tshur mthong rnams kyis thog mar rtags la brten nas nges par rtogs dgos pa'i chos).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/671  + (Comment: A non-Buddhist school renowned in … Comment: A non-Buddhist school renowned in Buddhist texts as the precursor of all Indian systems and so called due to the belief that liberation can be gained through thoroughly understanding the enumeration of twenty-five categories of objects of knowledge which principally involves distinguishing between mind and twentt-four categories of matter.mind and twentt-four categories of matter.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1643  + (Comment: A possible etymology is that there are nine levels of beings in cyclic existence, and thus "nine-creatures" comes to mean all beings in cyclic existence.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/765  + (Comment: Although pillar-and-pot exists, there is nothing that is both a pillar and a pot; hence, pillar-and-pot is an object of knowledge the being of which does not occur.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/770  + (Comment: Although pillar-and-pot exists, there is nothing that is both a pillar and a pot; hence, pillar-and-pot is an object of knowledge the being of which does not occur.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/467  + (Comment: Arhan/ arhant (dgra bcom pa) is t … Comment: Arhan/ arhant (dgra bcom pa) is translated as "Foe Destroyer" to accord with the usual Tibetan translation of the term and to assist in capturing the flavor of oral and written traditions that frequently refer to this etymology. Arhats have overcome the foe which is the afflictive emotions (nyon mongs, kleza), the chief of which is ignorance, the conception (according to the Consequence School) that persons and phenomena are established by way of their own character.\n The Indian and Tibetan translators were also aware of the etymology of arhant as "worthy one," as they translated the name of the "founder" of the Jaina system, Arhat, as mchod 'od "Worthy of Worship" (see Jam-y#ang-shay-b#a's Great Exposition of Tenets, ka, 62a.3). Also, they were aware of ChandrakIrti's gloss of the term as "Worthy One" in his Clear Words: "Because of being worthy of worship by the world of gods, humans, and demi-gods, they are called Arhats" (sadevamAnuøAsurAl lokAt pUnArhatvAd arhannityuchyate [Poussin, 486.5], lha dang mi dang lha ma yin du bcas pa'i 'jig rten gyis mchod par 'os pas dgra bcom pa zhes brjod la [P5260, vol. 98 75.2.2]). Also, they were aware of Haribhadra's twofold etymology in his Illumination of the Eight Thousand Stanza Perfection of Wisdom SUtra. In the context of the list of epithets qualifying the retinue of Buddha at the beginning of the sUtra (see Unrai Wogihara, ed., AbhisamayAla™kArAlokA PrajJA-pAramitA-vyAkhyA, The Work of Haribhadra [Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko, 1932-5; reprint ed., Tokyo: Sankibo Buddhist Book Store, 1973], 8.18), Haribhadra says, "They are called arhant [=Worthy One, from root arh 'to be worthy'] since they are worthy of worship, religious donations, and being assembled together in a group, etc." (W9.8-9: sarva evAtra pUjA-dakøi˜A-ga˜a-parikarøAdy-Arhatayar-han-taH; P5189, 67.5.7: 'dir thams cad kyang mchod pa dang // yon dang tshogs su 'dub la sogs par 'os pas na dgra bcom pa'o).\nAlso, "They are called arhant [= Foe Destroyer, arihan] because they have destroyed (hata) the foe (ari)."\n(W10.18: hatAritvAd arhantaH; P5189, 69.3.6. dgra rnams bcom pas na dgra bcom pa'o). Thus, this is a considered preference in the face of alternative etymologies—"Foe Destroyer" requiring a not unusual i infix to make ari-han, ari meaning enemy and han meaning to kill, and thus "Foe Destroyer." Unfortunately, one word in English cannot convey both this meaning and "Worthy of Worship"; thus, I have gone with what clearly has become the predominant meaning in Tibet. (For an excellent discussion of the two etymologies of "Arhat" in Buddhism and Jainism, see L.M. Joshi's "Facets of Jaina Religiousness in Comparative Light," L.D. Series 85, [Ahmedabad: L.D. Institute of Indology, May 1981], 53-58). Institute of Indology, May 1981], 53-58).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1812  + (Comment: Buddhaguhya (sangs rgyas gsang ba … Comment: Buddhaguhya (sangs rgyas gsang ba) explains that the term muni (thub pa) means that the person has restrained body, speech, and mind (lus la sogs pa sdams pa ni thub pa zhes bya'o). Tibetan oral traditions also take thub pa as referring to one who has overcome the enemy that is the afflictive emotions. Many translators render muni as "sage," but I choose "subduer" because it conveys the sense of conquest that the term has in Tibetan, for thub pa means "able," with a sense of being able to overcome someone else. (ShAkya, the name of this Buddha's clan, also means "able" or "potent," this probably being the reason why the name ShAkyamuni was translated into Tibetan as zAkya thub pa, with the first part of the compound in transliterated Sanskrit and the second in Tibetan.) The term dbang po (indra) means "supreme one," "powerful one," "lord," and more loosely "king"; ShAkyamuni is depicted as the supreme among Subduers.is depicted as the supreme among Subduers.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1304  + (Comment: By extension, distraction to hated, neutral, or even other virttous objects is included in the term.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1767  + (Comment: Difference can refer merely to no … Comment: Difference can refer merely to nominal difference, such as the difference between bum pa and pot; Examples of different phenomena are (1) the two, permanent and functioning thing (rtags dngos gnyis); these are mutually exclusive ('gal ba) and a dichotomy; (2) the two, object of knowledge and existent (shes bya dang yod pa gnyis); these are equivalent (don gcig) but not one (gcig); (3) the two, pillar and pot (ka bum gnyis); (4) the two, pot and the impermanence of pot (bum pa dang bum pa steng gi mi rtag pa gnyis); these are one entity but different isolates (ngo bo gcig la ldog pa tha dad).isolates (ngo bo gcig la ldog pa tha dad).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1659  + (Comment: For example, the Teacher Buddha (ston pa sangs rgyas).)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/923  + (Comment: From within objects and subjects, the translation for objects is "unreal conventional truth"; for subjects it is "incorrect conventional truth.")
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1869  + (Comment: From within objects and subjects, the translation for objects is "real conventionality"; for subjects it is "correct conventionality.")
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/922  + (Comment: From within objects and subjects, the translation for objects is "unreal conventionality"; for subjects it is "incorrect conventionality.")
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/857  + (Comment: Ignorance arisen due to a faulty system of tenets, faulty scriptures, etc.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/945  + (Comment: Illustrations are (1) object of knowledge (shes bya); (2) the two: permanent and functioning thing (rtag dngos gnyis); (3) uncompounded space ('dus ma byas kyi nam mkha').)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/70  + (Comment: In Mind-Only, these are predispositions causing generation of the afflicted intellect(nyon yid, kliSTamanas) viewing the mind-basis-of-all (kun shes rnam shes, Alayavijnana) and thinking, "I.")
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1250  + (Comment: In the GuhyasamAja system of High … Comment: In the GuhyasamAja system of Highest Yoga Tantra as presented in NAgArjuna's Five Stages (rim pa lnga pa, paJcakrama), conceptual consciousnesses are detailed as of eighty types, divided into three classes. The first group of thirty-three is composed of conceptual consciousnesses that involve a strong movement of "wind" to their objects. They include conceptions such as fear, attachment, hunger, thirst, compassion, acquisitiveness, and jealousy. The second group of forty conceptions is composed of conceptual consciousnesses that involve a medium movement of "wind" to their objects — conceptions such as joy, amazement, generosity, desiring to kiss, heroism, non-gentleness, and crookedness. The third group of seven conceptions involve a weak movement of "wind" to their objects — forgetfulness, mistake as in apprehending water in a mirage, catatonia, depression, laziness, doubt, and equal desire and hatred. The three groups represent, on the ordinary level of consciousness, increasingly less dualistic perception; it is clear that in the third group the mind is strongly withdrawn. They are called "indicative" because, for someone who has not experienced the three subtler levels of consciousness--mind of vivid white appearance, mind of vivid red or organge increase, and mind of black near-attainment (so called because it is near to manifesting the mind of clear light), these indicate what these consciousnesses are like.icate what these consciousnesses are like.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/483  + (Comment: In the Mind-Only School, the thor … Comment: In the Mind-Only School, the thoroughly established nature is the final object of observation by a path of purification, and indeed such a path observes, or apprehends, it; however, despite the fact that phenomena such as chairs are objects of observation of a path of purification, they are not observed or apprehended by it — they are only bases with respect to which emptiness is realized. Hence, the term "object of observation" in this context, as it has come to used in Ge-luk-b#a scholarship, is somewhat misleading. The usage of the term " objects of observation" even for objects that are not being observed may have come from systems that hold that even during direction perception of emptiness the phenomena qualified by emptiness still appear; this is called "meditative equipoise with appearance" (mnyam bzhag snang bcas). D#zong-ka-b#a earlier in his life held this notion but then switched to the opinion that the objects qualified by emptiness do not appear during meditative equipoise (mnyam bzhag snang med). His own commentary (legs bshad gser 'phreng) on Maitreya's Ornament for Clear Realization reflects his earlier notion, whereas his student Gyel-tsap's commentary (rnam bzhad snying po rgyan) reflects his later view. snying po rgyan) reflects his later view.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/506  + (Comment: In the SUtra School and above, il … Comment: In the SUtra School and above, illustrations of phenomena which are non-things, that is to say, which exist but do not perform the function of creating effects, are object of knowledge (shes bya); the two, permanent and functioning thing (rtag dngos gnyis); uncompounded space ('dus ma byas kyi nam mkha').ounded space ('dus ma byas kyi nam mkha').)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/1009  + (Comment: Jam-y#ang-shay-b#a holds that "na … Comment: Jam-y#ang-shay-b#a holds that "name" (ming) in this the Mind-Only context means a term expressing that object (rang zhes rjod pa'i sgra), and although "terminology" (brda') usually has the same meaning as "name," in order to avoid redundancy he takes it to mean a conceptual consciousness apprehending that object (rang 'dzin rtog pa). (This explanation of "terminology" is well-founded in the tradition since a common dictum is that names and conceptual consciousnesses engage their objects similarly.) (PH) verify change in notects similarly.) (PH) verify change in note)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/614  + (Comment: Ken-sur Nga-w#ang-lek-den etymolo … Comment: Ken-sur Nga-w#ang-lek-den etymologized this is "full-fall", i.e., one who is filled with the afflictions and has fallen into cyclic existence. As he said, this is not true of all persons, because even a Buddha, for instance, is a person. It is to be noted that animals, for instance, are persons. It is said that in general "self" (bdag, Atman) "person," and "I" (nga, ahaM) are equivalent, but in the particular context of the selflessness of persons "self" and "person" are not at all equivalent and do not at all have the same meaning. In the term "selflessness of persons," "self" refers to a falsely imagined status that needs to be refuted, whereas "persons" refers to existent beings who are the bases with respect to which that refutation is made. All four Buddhist schools, therefore, hold that persons exist; they do not claim that persons are mere fictions of ignorance. The schools hold differing opinions on the nature of the person. According to Ge-luk-b#a scholars, all except the Middle Way Consequence School posit something from within the bases of imputation of a person — usually either mind or the collection of mind and body — as being the person. In contrast, the Consequence School holds that, even though a person is imputed in dependence upon mind and body (in the Formless Realm, a person is imputed in dependence only on mind), the person is neither mind nor body nor a collection of mind and body, since it is just the I that is imputed in dependence upon mind and body. Following the lead of ChandrakIrti, recognized by most as the founder of the Consequence School, Ge-luk-b#a scholars identify how in the other schools some factor among the five aggregates (forms, feelings, discriminations, compositional factors, and consciousnesses) or the collection of them is considered to be the person when sought analytically from among its bases of imputation: the Proponents of the Great Exposition, in general, hold that the mere collection of the mental and physical aggregates is the person; however, some of the five SaMmitIya subschools of the Great Exposition School maintain that all five aggregates are the person (although the absurdity of one person being five persons would seem difficult not to notice) while another subschool, the Avantaka, asserts that the mind alone is the person; the SUtra School Following Scripture assert that the continuum of the aggregates is the person; the SUtra School Following Reasoning maintains that the mental consciousness is the person; the Mind-Only School Following Scripture holds that the mind-basis-of-all (kun gzhi rnam par shes pa, AlayavijJAna) is the person; the Mind-Only School Following Reasoning asserts that the mental consciousness is the person; both the Yogic Autonomy School and the SUtra Autonomy School assert that a subtle, neutral mental consciousness is the person. For the most part, the delineation of what these schools assert to be the person is a matter of conjecture and not reporting of forthright statements in these schools' own texts. Though it is clear that most of these schools (if not all) accept that persons exist, it is often not clear in their own literature that they assert that something from within the bases of imputation of a person is the person. Rather, as presented in Vasubandhu's commentary on the ninth chapter of his Treasury of Manifest Knowledge, persons are merely asserted to be "non-associated compositional factors" (ldan min 'du byed, viprayuktasaMskAra) and thus an instance of the fourth aggregate, compositional factors, without a specific identification — of any of the five aggregates that are a person's bases of imputation — as the person.son's bases of imputation — as the person.)
• Steinert App Dictionaries/06-Hopkins-Comment/777  + (Comment: One of the four foods, which acco … Comment: One of the four foods, which according to (1) morsel food (kham gyi zas, kavaDaMkAra-AhAra), (2) contact food (reg pa'i zas, sparza-AhAra) which is contaminated touch that increases the great elements associated with the sense powers, (3) intention food (sems pa'i zas, manaHsaMcetanAhAra) which is intention (or attention) that involves hope for a desired object, and (4) consciousness food (rnam shes kyi zas, vijJAna-AhAra) which is the collections of consciousness. S#er-s#hül L#o-sang-pün-tsok (Notes, 13b.5) cites the third chapter of Vasubandhu's Treasury of Manifest Knowledge (III.119-128) which indicates that:\n* coarse food furthers the body that is the support of this lifetime\n* contact furthers the mind that depends on the support of the body\n* intention projects future lifetimes (in that it is the main feature of karma)\n* the karmas that actualize future lifetimes in the sense of filling in the details of the lifetime projected by intention are posited as consciousness.\nS#er-s#hül quotes Vasubandhu's explanation that morsel food exists only in the Desire Realm whereas the other three exist in all three realms—Desire, Form, and Formless—and are necessarily contaminated. As Ge-s#hay B#el-den-drak-b#a explained, the foods increase cyclic existence, and thus uncontaminated contact, intention, and consciousness are not posited as food. S#er-s#hül paraphrases AsaGga's Compendium of Ascertainments which explains that although meditative absorptions and engaging in pure behavior are means of furthering the body through eliminating unfavorable circumstances, they are not posited as foods since they do not further the body by way of their own entities. His point must be that meditative stabilization therefore should not be included in the list.\n Contrary to this, Geshe Gedün Lodrö of the University of Hamburg includes meditative stabilization (ting nge 'dzin) and gives mental food as the second (Calm Abiding and Special Insight, 70-71):\n"The four types of nourishment are (1) coarse food, (2) mental nourishment, (3) nourishment of intention, and (4) nourishment of consciousness. The sense of mental satisfaction that comes when a desire is fulfilled is called mental nourishment. Just as coarse food nourishes the body, so satisfaction nourishes or replenishes the mind upon fulfillment of a desire. The third type, nourishment of intention, is an action that projects the next lifetime. Since it generates or produces the next lifetime, it is called a nourisher, or nourishment; it is the second link of the twelve-linked dependent-arising. Similarly, the third link, which is called consciousness, is known as the food of consciousness. Just as the action that projects, or impels, a future lifetime is called a nourisher, so the consciousness which is imprinted with that action and which will at the time of the effect of that action in the future life be imprinted with other karmas is called a nourisher, or nourishment. Why is [the first link of dependent-arising,] ignorance, not called a nourisher? It is because ignorance is the agent that pervades everything; thus, it is not singled out as a nourisher. There is still another type of nourishment, that of meditative stabilization. Persons who have achieved calm abiding and special insight and have proceeded to high levels of the path do not need to use coarse food; they have the nourishment of meditative stabilization.e nourishment of meditative stabilization.)