84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཐ་དད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་ཤེས་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཐ་དད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་ཤེས་པ་བཞི།

  • tha dad pa yang dag par shes pa bzhi
  • catuṣprati­saṃvid
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  • four special types of knowledge
  • ཐ་དད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་ཤེས་པ་བཞི།
  • tha dad pa yang dag par shes pa bzhi
  • catuṣprati­saṃvid AD
Definition in this text:

This refers to the four “special types of knowledge” of the teachings (dharma), their meaning (artha), their explanation (nirukti), and eloquence (pratibhāna) to explain them. In this case the term dharma refers to the words of the teachings or a particular text while the term artha refers to their meaning.