Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c10.s3.17

c10.s3.17

Contact is the mediation between the senses and their objects, and is of high importance in the theory of cognition; the fairest rendering is that it denotes the collision or co-operation of the attention aspect of consciousness directed to the organ in connexion with an object; the scholastics interpret it as denoting the consciousness resulting from the contact, and not the contact itself.