Sanskrit / Pali · Indian Buddhist philosophy (not all Indian philosophy)
citta
चित्त
Heard as CHIT-ta
- Period
- early Buddhist and later Abhidharma
- Semantic range
- Mind, thought, the subjective aspect of the mental stream.
- What it can mean
- In some Yogācāra uses, the receptacle or store of the mental.
- What it should not be equated with
- Not interchangeable with manas or vijñāna. Not 'the Buddhist word for consciousness.'
- Primary or early source
- Canonical Nikāyas; Abhidharma; Yogācāra.
- Scholarly source
- SEP Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy.
- Relation to other terms
- One term in a family. See also manas and vijñāna.