pramāṇa

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Glossarypramāṇa

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།