Sanskrit / Pali · Indian Buddhist and other Indic philosophies
manas
मनस्
Heard as MUH-nus
- Period
- early Buddhist and later
- Semantic range
- Mental faculty, mentation, in some systems an afflictive or self-clinging aspect.
- What it can mean
- Thinking as a sense; in Yogācāra, a distinct transformation of mind.
- What it should not be equated with
- Not a self in the Upaniṣadic sense. Not a translation of consciousness.
- Primary or early source
- Abhidharma; Asaṅga; related Sāṃkhya uses are a different system.
- Scholarly source
- SEP Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy.
- Relation to other terms
- Disagrees, even inside India, about what the mental faculty is doing.