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Viññāṇa

Consciousness: the awareness that arises at each of the six senses, the fifth aggregate.

Also: Vijnana, consciousness

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

Viññāṇa is consciousness arising in dependence on a sense and its object: eye-consciousness, ear-consciousness and so on, with mind-consciousness as the sixth. It is the fifth aggregate and, in dependent origination, conditions name-and-form. Yogācāra later developed the analysis into eight kinds of consciousness.