mind

Japanese: mind
mind

…In ancient India, the word manas (translated into English as mind) was used to describe spiritual and vital things, and in early Buddhism the word vijñāna was used to classify the phenomenal world (the five aggregates theory) and explain its origin (the theory of the twelve dependent origins), and it meant the function of discernment and the principle of individuation. During the Mahayana Buddhism, the idea of ​​Yogacara emerged, which attempted to explain everything through the consciousness of the twelve dependent origins, and in this theory the sixth consciousness that unifies the five consciousnesses related to the five senses was called consciousness. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mind" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…古代インドには,霊的,生命的なものを言い表す言葉の一つとして〈意manas〉(英語ではmindと訳される)という語があったし,また原始仏教では,現象界の分類(五蘊(ごうん)説)やその生成の説明(十二縁起説)に関して〈識vijñāna〉という語が用いられ,それによって了別の働きや個性化の原理が意味されていた。大乗仏教の時代には,十二縁起のうちの〈識〉によっていっさいを説明しようとする唯識思想(唯識説)が現れ,その中で,五官にかかわる五識を統一する第六識が〈意識〉と呼ばれていた。…

※「mind」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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