ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།
- chos kyi mtshan nyid
- dharmalakṣaṇa
- Term
- characteristics of phenomena
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།
- chos kyi mtshan nyid
- dharmalakṣaṇa
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.