དེའི་སྐད་ཅིག་མ། | Glossary of Terms

དེའི་སྐད་ཅིག་མ།

de’i skad cig ma

tatkṣaṇa

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tatkṣaṇa

The Exemplary Tale of Śārdūlakarṇa

tatkṣaṇa

དེའི་སྐད་ཅིག་མ།

de’i skad cig ma

tatkṣaṇa AS

Definition in this text:

A measure of time defined as being the duration of one spin on a spinning wheel. A hundred twenty tatkṣaṇas make one kṣaṇa, which means that the duration of one tatkṣaṇa is thirteen milliseconds. Vasubandhu defines the terms kṣaṇa and tatkṣaṇa inversely in his Abhidharmakośa (III 88): one hundred twenty kṣaṇas make one tatkṣaṇa.

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