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Mindstream, mind stream, or mental stream is the English translation of a Buddhist philosophical term Sanskrit citta-sa?t?na for the moment-to-moment continuity of consciousness. The mindstream doctrine, like most Buddhist doctrines, is not homogeneous and shows historical development as is evident through the exploration of this article, different applications according to context and varied definitions employed by different Buddhist traditions and yana. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 147 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Mindstream, mind stream, or mental stream is the English translation of a Buddhist philosophical term (Sanskrit citta-samtana) for the moment-to-moment continuity of consciousness. The mindstream doctrine, like most Buddhist doctrines, is not homogeneous and shows historical development (as is evident through the exploration of this article), different applications according to context and varied definitions employed by different Buddhist traditions and yana. Rhys Davids (1903: pp. 587â588) critiques de La Vallee-Poussin's work on the "Samtana": Professor de la Vallee Poussin finds a very positive evolution of vijnana-theory in certain Sanskrit-Buddhist texts. The term samtana is joined to or substituted for it--a term which seems to approximate to our own neopsychological concept of mind as a 'continuum' or flux. And he infers from certain contexts that this vijnana-samtana was regarded, not as one permanent, unchanging, transmigrating entity, as the soul was in the atman-theory, but as an "essential series of individual and momentary consciousnesses," forming a "procession vivace et autonome. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1917.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Advanced mathematics book, in the French language. ... Read more

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Two volumes in one: Lecons sur les Proprietes Extremales et al Meilleure Approximation des Fonctions Analytiques d'une Variable Reelle by Bernstein, and Lecons sur l'Approximation des Fonctions d'une Variable Reelle by Vallee Poussin. The text is in French. ... Read more