84000 Glossary of Terms
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མིང་། | Glossary of Terms
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མིང་།
- ming
- nāma
- varṇa
- Term
Publications: 4
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- name
- མིང་།
- ming
- nāma
- varṇa
Translation by Mattia Salvini
- name
- མིང་།
- ming
- nāma
The term nāma ordinarily means “name,” but in the context of “name-and-form” it refers more specifically to everything that makes up sentience, i.e., the mind and mental factors. In that context, the term is sometimes etymologized from the root nam in the sense of “bending,” either toward an object (perceiving an object), or toward a new birth.
Translation by Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes · Konstantin Brockhausen · Konstantin Brockhausen · Katrin Querl · Konstantin Brockhausen · Susanne Fleischmann · Doris Unterthurner
- name
- མིང་།
- ming
- nāma
Translation by Robert Kritzer
- nāma
- མིང་།
- ming
- nāma
Literally “name,” this refers to the four mental skandhas, by contrast to rūpa.