pramāṇa

From Buddha-Nature
Sanskrit Noun

pramāṇa

correct cognition
प्रमान
ཚད་མ།

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
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།