རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ། | Glossary of Terms

རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ།

rjes su dpag pa

anumāna
anumāṇa

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anumāṇa

Unraveling the Intent

anumāṇa

anumāṇa

Definition in this text:

Technical term in Buddhist logic.

1 passage contains this term

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infer

The Exemplary Tale of Śrīsena

infer

རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ།

rjes su dpag pa

anumāna

Definition in this text:

In Buddhism, inference is one of the two sources of valid knowledge (pramāṇa), the other being direct perception (pratyakṣa).

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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