Svasaṃvedana
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Key Term | svasaṃvedana |
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Hover Popup Choices | rang rig; self-awareness; reflexive awareness; self-aware |
In Tibetan Script | རང་རིག་ |
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rang rig |
Devanagari Sanskrit Script | स्वसंवेदन |
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | rangrik |
Chinese Script | 自證分 |
Chinese Pinyin | zìzhèngfēn |
Japanese Transliteration | jishō |
Korean Transliteration | chajŭng |
English Standard | self-awareness |
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | self-aware(ness) |
Richard Barron's English Term | self-knowing awareness [Dzogchen]; self-aware(ness) [Yogachara]; reflexive consciousness |
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | self-cognizing consciousness; self-knowing |
Sarah Harding's English Term | reflexive awareness |
Dan Martin's English Term | reflexive awareness |
Gyurme Dorje's English Term | intrinsic awareness; reflexive awareness |
Alternate Spellings | svasaṃvitti |
Term Type | Noun |
Source Language | Sanskrit |
Basic Meaning | An important term for the Yogācāra that refers to a consciousness of consciousness itself, or how one knows that they know something. It was a hotly debated topic that was disputed by followers of the Madhyamaka. In Tibet it would later become a common Dzogchen term, though with the entirely different meaning of one's own innate awareness (rig pa), a crucial concept in the Dzogchen teachings. |
Has the Sense of | Mind seeing mind. The classic example is that of a lamp that illuminates the surrounding area as well as itself. |
Definitions | |
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | See page 882: In Sanskrit, lit.“self-knowledge” or “self-awareness,” also seen written as svasaṃveda, svasaṃvit, svasaṃvitti. In Buddhist epistemology, svasaṃvedana is that part of consciousness which, during a conscious act of seeing, hearing, thinking, and so on, apprehends not the external sensory object but the knowing consciousness itself. |
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term | self-cognizant awareness. self-aware[ness] [thd]. Self-cognizance. self-cognition, apperception [ggd]. one's own insight; 1) self awareness; aware of oneself; 2) self consciousness (according to Chittamatra), [svasamvedana]; self-cognizing (intrinsic) awareness; [lit.] your mind, inherent cognizance. [one's] self-cognizance. 1) self-known, self-aware, natural awareness, intrinsic awareness, apperception. 2) abr. of {rang byung rig pa} self-existing insight. 3) self knower, proprioceptive, self-consciousness [apperceptive], self-knower, one's mind, one's own insight, insight, my own mind. 4) the absolute truth in Y. comp. {rang gi rig pa}; self-existing awareness |