Life-continuum

bhavaṅga
Mind & theory Going deeper beside the path

Life-continuum; bright, but conditioned resultant consciousness.

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Passages where bhavaṅga occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

  • Vimuttimagga · Vimuttimagga — The Path to Freedom (Upatissa, Kap. 1–12) · English

    mind (voṭṭhabbana-citta), (6) activation mind (javana-citta), and (7) that-same- object mind (tadārammaṇa-citta). Herein, the bhavaṅga mind is the mind with [the five sense-] faculties. It is like [a spider with] stretched threads. The adverting mind has a form-object (rūpārammaṇa) process at the eye sense door as condition. Through the condition of mutuality (aññamañña-paccaya) of the [four] elements, dependent upon the [material] basis (vatthu = vatthurūpa), there is the arising of the bhavaṅga mind, which sees a form-object. Immediately after the bhavaṅga mind, adverting

  • Pāli commentaries · mūlapaṇṇāsa-aṭṭhakathā · Pāli

    sotañcāvuso tiādīsupi eseva nayo| chaṭṭhadvāre pana mana nti bhavaṅgacittaṃ| dhamme ti tebhūmakadhammārammaṇaṃ| manoviññāṇa nti āvajjanaṃ vā javanaṃ vā| āvajjane gahite phassavedanāsaññāvitakkā āvajjanasahajātā honti| papañco javanasahajāto| javane gahite sahāvajjanakaṃ bhavaṅga mano nāma hoti, tato phassādayo sabbepi javanena sahajātāva| manodvāre pana yasmā atītādibhedaṃ sabbampi ārammaṇaṃ hoti, tasmā atītānāgatapaccuppannesū ti idaṃ yuttameva|

  • Śaivism · kālahastīśavilāsa · Sanskrit

    draika vivayāṇāṃ veda niṣṭhaṃ tattatpadārthopabṛṃhaṇārthatvena pratyabhijñayamānatvāt | tattadupa kramādi virodhācca na devatāntaraparatvena nayanaṃ yuktam | gaṅgāyā atiśaya pāvanatvaṃ ca maheśvarasambandhādhīnamityuktam | tatraiva - te tadeva gandharvā vasudhātalavāsinaḥ | bhavāṅga patitaṃ toyaṃ pavitramiti paspṛśuriti || viṣṇupurāṇe ca śambho jaṭākalāpāt sā viniṣkrāṃtā sthiśarkarān | plāvayitvādivaṃ ninye yā pāpān sagarātmajān || vastutastu gaṅgā na viṣ.ṇupādodbhūtā | kintu himavadutpannā | tathā ca rāmāyaṇe rāma vākyam - duhituḥ śailarājasya jyeṣṭhāyā vakturmahasi || p.

  • Mahāyāna sūtras · Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra · Sanskrit

    svadhātuta iti bhāvāṅgā [svabījā?]dālayavijñānataḥ | dvayābhāsā iti grāhyagrāhakābhāsāḥ | sahāvidyayā kleśaiśca vṛttireṣāṃ ta ime sāvidyākleśavṛttayaḥ | dvayadravyavivarjitā iti grāhyadravyeṇa grāhakadravyeṇa ca | evaṃ kleśaḥ paryeṣitavyaḥ |

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