Ideas across traditions · consciousness · Buddhist

mind

A common word: it appears in 36% of all works on the maps, so its reach across traditions is a fact about English, not about the idea. The works are listed for completeness; the analogues below are the judged connections.

Also under: “mens” · “citta” · “sems” · “སེམས་” · “nous” · “སེམས” · “νοῦς” · “manas” · “mente” · “ཡིད་” · “mentem”

406works in other traditions, with a cited page
24works in Buddhist, its home tradition on the maps
346further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
1judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

Analogues, judged

A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of mind; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • intellect Arabic70%the intellective faculty rendering nous/mens; adjacent to mind but a narrower philosophical term

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Indianfrom 1200 BCE · 62 works

and 57 more works in Indian; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Zoroastrianfrom 1000 BCE · 2 works

Greekfrom 750 BCE · 32 works

and 27 more works in Greek; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hellenistic & Late Antiquefrom 350 BCE · 61 works

and 56 more works in Hellenistic & Late Antique; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hermetic & Gnosticfrom 100 BCE · 23 works

and 18 more works in Hermetic & Gnostic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Romanfrom 55 BCE · 24 works

and 19 more works in Roman; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hebrew & Jewishfrom 20 CE · 8 works

and 3 more works in Hebrew & Jewish; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Early Christian & Monasticfrom 90 CE · 20 works

and 15 more works in Early Christian & Monastic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Byzantine & Orthodoxfrom 379 CE · 16 works

and 11 more works in Byzantine & Orthodox; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Kabbalistic & Hasidicfrom 400 CE · 4 works

Syriac & Armenianfrom 445 CE · 11 works

and 6 more works in Syriac & Armenian; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Arabicfrom 632 CE · 7 works

and 2 more works in Arabic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Chinesefrom 705 CE · 4 works

Medieval Latinfrom 867 CE · 26 works

and 21 more works in Medieval Latin; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Tibetanfrom 1050 · 17 works

and 12 more works in Tibetan; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Persianfrom 1260 · 2 works

Renaissance & Early Modern Europefrom 1468 · 44 works

and 39 more works in Renaissance & Early Modern Europe; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Theosophical & Modern Esotericfrom 1540 · 18 works

and 13 more works in Theosophical & Modern Esoteric; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Modern Europeanfrom 1758 · 21 works

and 16 more works in Modern European; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Norse & Celticfrom 1826 · 2 works

Southeast Asianfrom 1868 · 1 work

Japanesefrom 1927 · 1 work

At home in Buddhist

and 16 more.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.