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'''Contact''' (Skt. ''sparśa''; Tib. རེག་པ་ or [[རེག་བྱ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''reg pa'' or ''reg bya'') — 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 ever-present mental states]]. Contact is also the sixth of the [[twelve nidanas]]. | '''Contact''' (Skt. ''sparśa''; Tib. རེག་པ་ or [[རེག་བྱ་]], ''rekpa'' or ''rekja'', [[Wyl.]] ''reg pa'' or ''reg bya'') — 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 ever-present mental states]]. Contact is also the sixth of the [[twelve nidanas]]. | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says: | In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says: | ||
*Tib. རེག་པ་ནི་(ཡུལ་དབང་ཤེས་)གསུམ་འདུས་ནས་(སྔ་མ་ན་མེད་པའི་)དབང་པོའི་འགྱུར་བ་ཡོངས་སུ་གཅོད་པ(འམ་ཤེས་པ)་ཚོར་བའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའོ།<ref>Supplemented with [[Khenpo Nuden]]'s commentary</ref> | *Tib. རེག་པ་ནི་(ཡུལ་དབང་ཤེས་)གསུམ་འདུས་ནས་(སྔ་མ་ན་མེད་པའི་)དབང་པོའི་འགྱུར་བ་ཡོངས་སུ་གཅོད་པ(འམ་ཤེས་པ)་ཚོར་བའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའོ།<ref>Supplemented with [[Khenpo Nuden]]'s commentary</ref> | ||
*Contact is the meeting together of the three (object, sense faculty and consciousness) and the positive determination (or cognition) of the (previously non-existing) faculty. It is the support of sensation. ([[ | *Contact is the meeting together of the three (object, sense faculty and consciousness) and the positive determination (or cognition) of the (previously non-existing) faculty. It is the support of sensation. ([[Rigpa Translations]]) | ||
*Contact is the meeting together of the three (object, sense faculty and consciousness) and the cognition of the faculty's (particular) event. It supports sensation. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | *Contact is the meeting together of the three (object, sense faculty and consciousness) and the cognition of the faculty's (particular) event. It supports sensation. ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | ||
==Alternative Translations== | |||
*contacting awareness (Berzin) | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Latest revision as of 21:55, 9 March 2018
Contact (Skt. sparśa; Tib. རེག་པ་ or རེག་བྱ་, rekpa or rekja, Wyl. reg pa or reg bya) — 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 ever-present mental states. Contact is also the sixth of the twelve nidanas.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. རེག་པ་ནི་(ཡུལ་དབང་ཤེས་)གསུམ་འདུས་ནས་(སྔ་མ་ན་མེད་པའི་)དབང་པོའི་འགྱུར་བ་ཡོངས་སུ་གཅོད་པ(འམ་ཤེས་པ)་ཚོར་བའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའོ།[1]
- Contact is the meeting together of the three (object, sense faculty and consciousness) and the positive determination (or cognition) of the (previously non-existing) faculty. It is the support of sensation. (Rigpa Translations)
- Contact is the meeting together of the three (object, sense faculty and consciousness) and the cognition of the faculty's (particular) event. It supports sensation. (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Alternative Translations
- contacting awareness (Berzin)
Notes
- ↑ Supplemented with Khenpo Nuden's commentary