What is "asamprajanya"

Asaṃprajanya (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: sheshyin minpa) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "inattentiveness", "non-alertness", etc. In the Mahayana tradition, asaṃprajanya is defined the distracted discrimination accompanying a disturbing emotion.

Asaṃprajanya is identified as:

• One of the twenty secondary unwholesome factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings
• The opposite of samprajanya (alertness, attentiveness, vigilance)