citta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of citta
From Sanskrit
Example Sentences
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They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
These characteristics are involved in the very essence of citta, and form the groundwork of the Yoga method of practice, which consists in steadying a particular state of mind to the exclusion of others.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
In all these lives the same citta was always following him.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The spatial qualities of things are however perceived by the senses directly, but the time-order is a scheme of the citta or the buddhi.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
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