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ALAYA-VIJNANA: Universal, or Divine Mind, or all-conserving Mind. It is used synonymously with Tathagata-garbha and Noble Wisdom.
ARYA-JNANA: that which transcends knowledge, or Transcendental Intelligence. It is used synonymously with Arya-prajna, but signifies the realisation-aspect of Noble Wisdom.
BODHI: is the wisdom content of Prajna.
KARUNA: is the love or compassion content of Prajna.
JNANA: is the knowledge, or cognition, or thinking content of Prajna.
MANAS: the intuitive mind; the connecting link between Universal Mind and the individual, or conscious, or discriminating, mind.
MANO-VIJNANA: the conscious, perceiving, discriminating, thinking, intellectual, mind.
VIJNANA: the principle of discrimination; the sense-minds.
CITTA: mind in general.
DWIGHT GODDARD.
Thetford, Vermont, U. S. A. 1932.
HISTORY OF CH’AN BUDDHISM PREVIOUS TO THE TIMES OF HUI-NENG (WEI-LANG)
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The Traffic between India and China in very early times was very considerable in spite of the tremendous difficulties and dangers of the passes over the high Himalayas, the Tibetan deserts and the appalling wastes and tempests of the Southern seas. But in spite of the difficulties intimations of Buddhism began to percolate into China certainly as early as the First Century before the Christian Era and by the First Century after eminent Indian scholars were finding it worth their trouble to make the arduous journey for the sake of the welcome and the honor they received at the Imperial Court and by the literati, so that by the Second Century Buddhist scriptures were being rapidly translated into Chinese.