An external object on which a cognition focuses and which serves as the focal condition of the cognition. Focal objects exist prior to the cognitions of them and have their own continuums different from those of the cognitions of them.
Tibetan: དམིགས་ཡུལ། dmigs-yul
Sanskrit: ālambanaviṣaya
J. Hopkins: Observed object; Object of observation
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