Kliṣṭamanas
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Kliṣṭamanas [alt. kleṡa manas] (T. nyon yid ཉོན་ཡིད་; C. ranmona/mona shi 染末那/末那識). Translated as "afflicted consciousness", "defiled mental consciousness", "deluded mind" etc.[1][2] It is the seventh of the eight consciousnesses presented in the Yogacara school. This consciousness is focused inwards upon the ālayavijñāna (the storehouse consciousness), mistaking it for a substantial self, with the result that all experience is subsequently divided into wanted and unwanted. When buddhahood is attained, this consciousness is transformed into the wisdom of equality.[1]
Description
Thrangu Rinpoche states:
- The seventh consciousness refers to the most basic level of mental afflictions, or klesha. It refers not to the coarse kleshas, but to the root of the kleshas. Specifically, the afflicted consciousness is the most subtle level of fixation on a self. Again, this is not course fixation on a self. This is the subtle level of fixation on a self that is unfluctuatingly present even when one is asleep. When sometimes you have a sense of self, and you think “I”, that is an operation not of the seventh consciousness but of the sixth. The seventh consciousness is omnipresent until you obtain a higher level, such as with a first level bodhisattva. Although it is not itself directly observable, the afflicted consciousness is the basis for all coarse fixation on a self and therefore for all coarse kleshas.[3]
Alternative translations
- Afflictive aspect of consciousness (LCN)
- Defiled emotional consciousness (Padmakara)
- Deluded consciousness (Gyurme Dorje)
This term is sometimes referred to as manas-vijnana.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Kliṣṭamanas.
- ↑
ཉོན་ཡིད་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Thrangu Rinpoche 2002, p. 126.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Jamgon Kongtrul; Sarah Harding; Thrangu Rinpoche (2002), Creation and Completion, Essential Points of Tantric Meditation, with a Commentary by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Wisdom Publications
External links
- ཉོན་ཡིད་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
nyon_yid, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
Defiled mental consciousness, Rigpa Shedra Wiki