ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms

ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།

chos kyi mtshan nyid

dharmalakṣaṇa

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characteristics of phenomena

Siṃha’s Questions

characteristics of phenomena

ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།

chos kyi mtshan nyid

dharmalakṣaṇa

Definition in this text:

The defining characteristics (lakṣaṇa) of phenomena (dharma). The term lakṣaṇa is used in a variety of contexts to indicates the primary characteristic or defining feature of any particular phenomena; for instance the lakṣaṇa of fire is that it is hot and burning.

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