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'''Sensation''' (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''tshor ba | '''Sensation''' (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]], ''tsorwa'', [[Wyl.]] ''tshor ba'') is the second of the [[five skandhas]]. | ||
== | In [[Abhidharma]] literature, sensation also appears in the list of [[fifty-one mental states]], in the subgroup of [[five ever-present mental states]]. | ||
ཚོར་བ་ནི་ཉམས་སུ་མྱོང་བའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཅན་ནོ། | |||
Sensation also appears seventh in the list of the [[twelve nidanas]]. | |||
==Definitions== | |||
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] writes: | |||
*Tib. ཚོར་བ་ནི་ཉམས་སུ་མྱོང་བའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཅན་ནོ། | |||
*Sensation has the characteristic of experience. ([[▷RIGPA]]) | *Sensation has the characteristic of experience. ([[▷RIGPA]]) | ||
*Sensations are defined as impressions ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | *Sensations are defined as impressions ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | ||
==Subdivisions== | |||
Sensations linked to the [[five sense faculties]] can be either pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, making a total of 15 types of sensations. When pleasant, unpleasant and neutral mental sensations are added, that makes a total of 18 types of sensations. | |||
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
*feeling ([[▷PKT]], David Karma Choepel, Gyurme Dorje) | *feeling ([[▷PKT]], David Karma Choepel, Gyurme Dorje, Berzin) | ||
*feeling a level of happiness (Berzin) | |||
*feeling-tone ([[▷HVG]]) | *feeling-tone ([[▷HVG]]) | ||
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[[Category:Abhidharma]] | |||
[[Category:Five skandhas]] | |||
[[Category:Five ever-present factors]] | |||
[[Category:Fifty-one mental states]] | |||
[[Category:Twelve links]] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:48, 23 June 2019
Sensation (Skt. vedanā; Tib. ཚོར་བ་, tsorwa, Wyl. tshor ba) is the second of the five skandhas.
In Abhidharma literature, sensation also appears in the list of fifty-one mental states, in the subgroup of five ever-present mental states.
Sensation also appears seventh in the list of the twelve nidanas.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche writes:
- Tib. ཚོར་བ་ནི་ཉམས་སུ་མྱོང་བའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཅན་ནོ།
- Sensation has the characteristic of experience. (▷RIGPA)
- Sensations are defined as impressions (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Subdivisions
Sensations linked to the five sense faculties can be either pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, making a total of 15 types of sensations. When pleasant, unpleasant and neutral mental sensations are added, that makes a total of 18 types of sensations.