pramāṇa
From Buddha-Nature
Sanskrit Noun
pramāṇa
correct cognition
प्रमान
ཚད་མ།
量
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 |
| Tibetan | ཚད་མ། ( tshema) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | tshad ma ( tshema) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | प्रमान ( pramana) |
| Romanized Sanskrit | pramāṇa ( pramana) |
| Chinese | 量 |
| Chinese Pinyin | liàng |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | correct cognition |
| Richard Barron's English Term | valid cognition |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | valid cognition |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | logic, valid cognition |
| 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། |
