Cuti-citta

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Cuti-citta (Skt., ‘death consciousness’). In the scholastic Buddhism of the Theravāda tradition, one of the fourteen functions of the life-continuum (bhavaṅga (see ĀLAYA-VIJÑĀNA)). According to the medieval commentators it is the final moment of consciousness in an individual's life and is followed immediately by the first moment of consciousness at conception (patisandhi-citta) in the new appearance.