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རྟོག་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
- kalpanā
- kḷp
- Term
- applied thought
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
- applied thought
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
- conception
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- kalpanā
- deliberation
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
A mental factor understood either as “the coarseness of the mind” or as the cause for such coarseness. More elaborate definitions explain it as a type of “mental murmur” (manojalpa) that is searching (paryeṣaka) and can be either based on intention (cetanā) or on wisdom (prajñā). See also “analysis” (vicāra).
- discursive thought
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- kalpanā
The ordinary activity of the mental consciousness, also translated as conceptual thought.
- ideation
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
- initial consideration
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Also translated here as “thought construction.”
- investigating
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Also translated here as “mental engagement.”
- mental engagement
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Also translated here as “investigating.”
- mentally construct
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- kḷp
Same as conceptualizing.
- thought construction
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Also translated here as “initial consideration.”