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རྟོག་པ། | Glossary of Terms
རྟོག་པ།
rtog pa
vitarka
- Term
Publications: 8
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- Applied thought
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Translation by Gregory Forgues
- Conception
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- kalpanā
Translation by Mattia Salvini
- 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).
Translation by Jampa Tenzin · Ngawang Tenzin · Christian Bernert · Julia C. Stenzel
- Discursive thought
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- kalpanā
The ordinary activity of the mental consciousness, also translated as conceptual thought.
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Ideation
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Translation by Gregory Forgues
- Investigating
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Also translated here as “mental engagement.”
Translation by Gregory Forgues
- Mental engagement
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- vitarka
Also translated here as “investigating.”
Translation by Dr. Shenghai Li · Zhuo Siyu
- Mentally construct
- རྟོག་པ།
- rtog pa
- kḷp
Same as conceptualizing.