Cognition

What does it mean to understand something, as opposed to knowing it or simply apprehending it?

Existent phenomena are defined as what is validly knowable. In the Sautrantika system, existent phenomena are divided into nonstatic objective entities and static metaphysical ones.

Mental activity is made up of six types of consciousness that are aware of an object as being a sight, a sound, and so on, and 51 types of mental factors that qualify or help with the cognition of that object.

The aggregate of karmic formations (Skt. samskaraskandha) contains two types of affecting variables.

Understanding the difference between the definitions of these three terms helps us to deconstruct conceptual thoughts that we have.

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

Grasping for truly established existence entails both projecting an appearance of such an impossible mode of existence and believing it corresponds to reality. Dormant grasping for it occurs when one or both aspects of grasping are not manifest.

The subtlest level of mind, the clear light mind, naturally makes an appearance similar to that when non-conceptually cognizing voidness. Even when not cognizing voidness, it does that explicitly at the moment of death and, according to the Jetsunpa textbooks, subliminally...

Cognitions have numerous cognitive objects and the various Indian Buddhist schools of tenets differ in their explanations of them for the various ways of knowing.

Milarepa introduces a young man to mahamudra meditation to search for his mind.