Consciousness

viññāṇa

Mind & theory Building on it Stage 4 of 8

The fifth aggregate: the bare cognising of an object at one of the six sense doors.

On the path: 4 · How experience arises — What is it we call a person and a world? The five aggregates, the sense fields, contact, feeling, craving, clinging — not-self as a first introduction. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of four · Fully understanding · DN 34 · Groups of seven · Fully understanding · DN 33 · dn33:2.2.8

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Citta, cetasika and the way to Nibbāna Abhidhamma · foundation (part 1)
Citta, sati-sampajañña and dependent origination Abhidhamma · paṭiccasamuppāda (source version)
The fivefoldness of the one reality Comparative · Theravāda – Vajrayāna – Śaivism

Across all traditions

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

Narrative literature · Udānavarga · Sanskrit

vijñāna.sārāṇi.subhāṣitāni.jñātam.śrutam.caiva.samādhi.sāram / na.tasya.vijñāna.śrutam.mahā.artham.yaḥ.sāhaso.bhavati.naraḥ.pramattaḥ //
Tipiṭaka · Vibhaṅga · Pāli

Akusalaṁ viññāṇaṁ kusalābyākatehi viññāṇehi dūre; kusalābyākatā viññāṇā akusalā viññāṇā dūre; kusalaṁ viññāṇaṁ akusalābyākatehi viññāṇehi dūre; akusalābyākatā viññāṇā kusalā viññāṇā dūre; abyākataṁ viññāṇaṁ kusalākusalehi viññāṇehi dūre; kusalākusalā viññāṇā abyākatā viññāṇā dūre. Dukkhāya vedanāya sampayuttaṁ viññāṇaṁ sukhāya ca adukkhamasukhāya ca vedanāhi sampayuttehi viññāṇehi dūre; sukhāya ca adukkhamasukhāya ca vedanāhi sampayuttā viññāṇā dukkhāya vedanāya sampayuttā viññāṇā dūre; sukhāya vedanāya sampayuttaṁ viññāṇaṁ dukkhāya ca adukkhamasukhāya ca vedanāhi sampayuttehi viññāṇehi dūre; dukkhāya ca adukkhamasukhāya ca vedanāhi sampayuttā viññāṇā sukhāya vedanāya sampayuttā viññāṇā …
Pāli commentaries · khandhavagga-aṭṭhakathā · Pāli

kasmā panettha ‘‘viññāṇadhātu kho, gahapatī’’ti na vuttanti? sammohavighātatthaṃ| ‘‘oko’’ti hi atthato paccayo vuccati, purejātañca kammaviññāṇaṃ pacchājātassa kammaviññāṇassapi vipākaviññāṇassapi vipākaviññāṇañca vipākaviññāṇassapi kammaviññāṇassapi paccayo hoti, tasmā ‘‘kataraṃ nu kho idha viññāṇa’’nti? sammoho bhaveyya, tassa vighātatthaṃ taṃ agahetvā asambhinnāva desanā katā| apica ārammaṇavasena catasso abhisaṅkhāraviññāṇaṭṭhitiyo vuttāti tā dassetumpi idha viññāṇaṃ na gahitaṃ|
Indian tantras · Mahāsaṃnipātaratnaketudhāraṇīsūtra, 1-6, 10-11 · Sanskrit

vijñāna vartatendriyeṣu vidyutā yathā nabhe anātmakāśca sarve sparśavedanāpi cetanā / yoniśo nirīkṣya kiṃcidasti naiva dravyatā saṃmohito hi bālavargo yantravat pravartate // Rkp_3.52 //
Jaina scriptures · Nyāyāvatāra with the Nyāyāvatāravivṛti commentary by Siddharṣigaṇin · Sanskrit

advaya-vijñāna-tattva-sādhanenânukūlam ācarasîti cet, syād etat, yadi bhavataḥ pramāṇa-paridṛṣṭa-sakala-vyavahārôcchedena kudarśana-vāsanâhitâdṛṣṭâdvaya-tattva-parikalpanāt pratikūlaṃ na syāt. tan nârtha-viraheṇa bahiḥ-pramāṇa-bhūta-jñānôllāso 'sti, nirhetukatva-prasaṅgād iti.

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