Maria Heim, “The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention and Agency” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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The Importance of Patience in Moral Life
The terms that we, the opposites that we have for terms like action and agency in English, they kind of do other work. If you can back the Latin roots, it would be hard to say that passion is the opposite of action or that patience is theosite of agency. So those all have their own connotations that are not necessarily really opposed to agency in a grammatical way. And then so with all of that behind it, then you translate chitna as intention.
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