náma: (lit. 'name'): 'mind', mentality. This term is generally
used as a collective name for the 4 mental groups (arúpino
khandha), viz. feeling (vedaná), perception (saññá), mental
formations (sankhára) and consciousness (viññána). Within the
4th link (náma-rúpa) in the formula of the paticcasamuppáda
(q.v.), however, it applies only to karma-resultant (vipáka)
feeling and perception and a few karma-resultant mental
functions inseparable from any consciousness. As it is said (M.
9; D. 15; S. XII, 2): "Feeling (vedaná), perception (saññá),
volition (cetaná), impression (phassa), mental advertence
(manasikára): this, o brother, is called mind (náma)." With the
addition of 2 more mental factors, namely, mental vitality
(jívita) and concentration (samádhi), here 'stationary phase of
mind' (cittatthiti), these 7 factors are said in the
Abhidhammattha Sangaha to be the inseparable mental factors in
any state of consciousness. For the complete list of all the 50
mental formations of the sankhára-kkhandha (not inclu