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'''Appreciation''' (Skt. ''adhimokṣa''; Tib. [[མོས་པ་]], Wyl. ''mos pa'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[Five object-determining mental states]].  
'''Appreciation''' (Skt. ''adhimokṣa''; Tib. [[མོས་པ་]], ''möpa'',  [[Wyl.]] ''mos pa'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[five object-determining mental states]].  


==Definitions==
==Definitions==
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says:
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says:
*Tib. མོས་པ་ནི་ངེས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ་འཛིན་པ་མི་འཕྲོག་པའི་བྱེད་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
*Tib. མོས་པ་ནི་ངེས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ་འཛིན་པ་མི་འཕྲོག་པའི་བྱེད་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
*Interest means apprehending a determined [[entity]] as it is. Its function is not to lose the object. ([[Rigpa Translations]])
*Appreciation means apprehending a determined [[entity]] as it is. Its function is not to lose the object. ([[Rigpa Translations]])
*Interest means holding on to the certain form of a determined object. Its function is to not lose the object. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]])
*Interest means holding on to the certain form of a determined object. Its function is to not lose the object. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]])


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==
*Interest (David Karma Choepel)
*interest (David Karma Choepel, Erik Pema Kunsang)
*Resolve (Gyurme Dorje)
*resolve (Gyurme Dorje)
*Interest or adherence (Tony duff<ref>Tony duff: It is defined as having the function of keeping the attention on just the thing desired, seen as suitable, so that it is not sidetracked to some other object. There is no specific term with this definition in English so many different terms have been used for the translation.</ref>)
*adherence (Tony Duff)


==Notes==
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[[Category:Five object-determining mental states]]
[[Category:Five object-determining mental states]]

Latest revision as of 06:20, 4 January 2018

Appreciation (Skt. adhimokṣa; Tib. མོས་པ་, möpa, Wyl. mos pa) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the five object-determining mental states.

Definitions

In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:

  • Tib. མོས་པ་ནི་ངེས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ་འཛིན་པ་མི་འཕྲོག་པའི་བྱེད་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
  • Appreciation means apprehending a determined entity as it is. Its function is not to lose the object. (Rigpa Translations)
  • Interest means holding on to the certain form of a determined object. Its function is to not lose the object. (Erik Pema Kunsang)

Alternative Translations

  • interest (David Karma Choepel, Erik Pema Kunsang)
  • resolve (Gyurme Dorje)
  • adherence (Tony Duff)