Cognition

Bare cognition is a fresh, nonfraudulent awareness that is non-deceptive and parted from concepts.

Conceptual cognition is a deceptive cognition, because it confuses a category and generic representation of a member of a category with a specific item. Western languages call such conceptual labeling “projection.”

Understanding the difference between affirmation phenomena, which are known simply by affirming the presence or existence of something, and negation phenomena, known by negating the presence or existence of something, enables us to understand nonstaticness and voidness.

Subsequent cognition is an invalid awareness that apprehends what has already been apprehended.

An in-depth analysis of the topic of what it means to understand something, which is important both for our Dharma practice and in daily life.

The Gelug explanation of how all our problems come about because of confusion about appearances, how the mind makes appearances and what is arising and engaged with when we talk about mental activity.

An overview of the ways of knowing within the context and point of view of the different Indian Buddhist philosophical tenet systems.

It’s very important to try to understand the various appearances of the mind, how they exist and do they correspond to reality or not.

This eighteenth century text concerns the mind and the ways in which it knows things, and is written from the point of view of the Gelug interpretation of the True Aspectarian branch of the Sautrantika tenet system of Indian Buddhism.

An overview of the two general positions regarding the main points of cognition theory of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.