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Attention (Skt. manaskāra; Tib. ཡིད་བྱེད་, yi jé, Wyl. yid byed) — 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.

Tib. ཡིད་བྱེད་ནི་དམིགས་པ་ལ་སེམས་འཛིན་པ།
Attention is a mind apprehending the object of focus (Rigpa Translations)
Attention describes the process of the mind fixating upon the object concerned (Erik Pema Kunsang)

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	'''Attention''' (Skt. ''manaskāra''; Tib. [[ཡིད་བྱེད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''yid byed'') — 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]].		'''Attention''' (Skt. ''manaskāra''; Tib. [[ཡིད་བྱེད་]], ''yi jé'', [[Wyl.]] ''yid byed'') — 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]].

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