nimitta
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nimitta
(Sanskrit, sign). Technical term in Buddhist psychology and philosophy denoting the cognition or apprehension of forms. The term denotes the basic data of perception such as colours, shapes, sounds, and so forth which are then processed by ideation (saṃjñā).
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