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'''Conception''' (Skt. ''vitarka''; Tib. [[རྟོག་པ་]], Wyl. ''rtog 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 [[four variables]].  
'''Conception''' (Skt. ''vitarka''; Tib. [[རྟོག་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rtog 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 [[four variables]].  


==Definitions==
==Definitions==
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==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==
*Gross discursiveness ([[Padmakara]])
*Coarse conceptual understanding (Tony Duff)
*Considering (David Karma Choepel)
*Considering (David Karma Choepel)
*Gross discursiveness ([[Padmakara]])
*Ideation (Gyurme Dorje)
*Ideation (Gyurme Dorje)
*Coarse conceptual understanding  (Tony Duff)
*Initial consideration (Dr. Lozang Jamspal)
*Reasoning, investigation, examination (Berzin)
*Reasoning, investigation, examination (Berzin)
*Thought construction (Dr. Lozang Jamspal)


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Latest revision as of 17:45, 23 January 2022

Conception (Skt. vitarka; Tib. རྟོག་པ་, Wyl. rtog 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 four variables.

Definitions

In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:

  • Tib. རྟོག་པ་ནི་སེམས་པ་དང་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་དམིགས་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཚོལ་བའི་ཡིད་ཀྱིས་བརྗོད་པ་སྟེ། དོན་འོལ་སྤྱི་ཙམ་འཛིན་པ་རྩིང་བའི་རྣམ་པ་ཅན། རྒྱང་རིང་པོའི་གཟུགས་ལ་ཁམ་ཕོར་དང་བུམ་པའི་ཁྱད་མ་ཕྱེ་བར་དེ་ཙམ་འཛིན་པ་ལྟ་བུའོ།
  • Conception is a mental expression created by the mind's investigation of an observed entity by means of intention and wisdom. It apprehends an object coarsely and produces a rough understanding, just like perceiving a distant form without distinguishing whether it is a clay bowl or a vase. (Rigpa Translations)
  • Conception is a mental expression created by the mind's investigation of an observed object by means of apprehension and discrimination. It is merely grasping a rough meaning and it has a coarse form, just like perceiving a distant form without distinguishing whether it is a clay bowl or a vase. (Erik Pema Kunsang)

Alternative Translations

  • Coarse conceptual understanding (Tony Duff)
  • Considering (David Karma Choepel)
  • Gross discursiveness (Padmakara)
  • Ideation (Gyurme Dorje)
  • Initial consideration (Dr. Lozang Jamspal)
  • Reasoning, investigation, examination (Berzin)
  • Thought construction (Dr. Lozang Jamspal)