citta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of citta
From Sanskrit
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Surendranath Dasgupta
The citta has thus collected within itself the instincts and tendencies of all those different animal lives.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
So the citta or consciousness takes the phenomena of contact, etc., and cognizes them.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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