དཔྱོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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དཔྱོད་པ།
- dpyod pa
- vicāra
- Term
- sustained thought
- དཔྱོད་པ།
- dpyod pa
- vicāra
- sustained thought
- དཔྱོད་པ།
- dpyod pa
- vicāra
- analysis
- དཔྱོད་པ།
- dpyod pa
- vicāra
A mental factor understood either as “the subtlety of the mind” or as the cause for such subtlety. 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 “deliberation” (vitarka).
- examination
- དཔྱོད་པ།
- dpyod pa
- vicāra
One of the four bases of magical power.
- investigation
- དཔྱོད་པ།
- dpyod pa
- vicāra
In our text, the specific quality of vicāra is to remain mindful of nimitta in the sense of “mentally watching” or noting them without engaging in a more discursive way.