Dignāga and Dharmakīrti's Buddhist epistemology posits svasaṃvedana (self-awareness) as a functional reflexive property of individual cognitions, not of a permanent witnessing consciousness.
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Reflexive property(as a characteristic of self-awareness)
A quality that loops back on itself; in this case, consciousness that observes or knows its own activity directly.
cognition(Interpretation of Kant's use of 'cognition' (Erkenntnis) as pertaining to meaning/intelligibility rather than merely knowledge)
A semantic notion (on the interpretation described)
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
svasaṃvedana(as the central doctrine being explained)
A Sanskrit term meaning 'self-awareness' or 'self-knowing'—the idea that your mind is aware of its own thoughts and experiences as they happen.