pramāṇa

Sanskrit Noun

pramāṇa

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प्रमान

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Basic Meaning

In the Buddhist literature on pramāṇa, it refers to cognition that correctly apprehends its object without any deception or mistake. Such correct cognition include direct perception and inferential cognition.

Term Variations
Key Term	pramāṇa
Topic Variation	pramāṇa
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Devanagari Sanskrit	प्रमान  ( pramana)
Romanized Sanskrit	pramāṇa  ( pramana)
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Term Information
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	In the Buddhist literature on pramāṇa, it refers to cognition that correctly apprehends its object without any deception or mistake. Such correct cognition include direct perception and inferential cognition.
Term Type	Noun
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	༡ རང་ཡུ་ལ་མི་བསླུ་བའི་ཤེས་པ་སྟེ་རང་ཡུལ་གསར་དུ་རྟོགས་པའི་བློ་མངོན་སུམ་ཡང་དག་དང་། རྗེས་དཔག་ཡང་དག་རྣམས་སོ། ༢ རིག་གནས་ཆེ་བ་ལྔའི་ཡ་གྱལ།་ཚད་མ་རིག་པའོ།