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ངེས་པའི་ཚིག | Glossary of Terms
ངེས་པའི་ཚིག
nges pa’i tshig
nirukta
- Term
Publications: 6
Translation by Zachary Beer
- Etymology
- ངེས་པའི་ཚིག
- nges pa’i tshig
- nirukti
Translation by Dr. Anne Burchardi · Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche · Dr. Ulrich Pagel
- Etymology
- ངེས་པའི་ཚིག
- ངེས་ཚིག
- nges pa’i tshig
- nges tshig
- nirukta
Translation by Zachary Beer
- Definition
- ངེས་པའི་ཚིག
- nges pa’i tshig
- nirukti
Translation by Zachary Beer
- Language
- ངེས་པའི་ཚིག
- nges pa’i tshig
- nirukti
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Lexical explanations
- ངེས་པའི་ཚིག
- nges pa’i tshig
- nirukta
Lexical explanations here implies the exact knowledge of the primary and derivative definitions and explanations of names and words. It is also the third of the four kinds of exact knowledge, see “exact knowledge of language and lexical explanations.”
Translation by David Jackson
- Words for interpreting
- ངེས་ཚིག
- nges tshig
- niruktipada
One of ten different kinds of verbal phrase or statement (Skt. pada) mentioned in this text.