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The '''five minor sciences''' (Tib. ''rigné chung nga''; | The '''five minor sciences''' (Tib. རིག་གནས་ཆུང་ལྔ་, ''rigné chung nga''; Wyl. ''rig gnas chung lnga'') <noinclude>are part of the [[ten sciences]] or traditional fields of knowledge in which a learned person, or [[pandita]], is supposed to be well versed. </noinclude> | ||
#synonyms (Skt. ''abhidhāna''; Wyl. ''mngon brjod'') | #synonyms (Skt. ''abhidhāna''; Tib. མངོན་བརྗོད་, Wyl. ''mngon brjod'') | ||
#mathematics and astrology (''jyotiṣa''; ''skar rtsis'') | #mathematics and astrology (''jyotiṣa''; Tib. སྐར་རྩིས་, Wyl. ''skar rtsis'') | ||
#performance, drama (''nāṭaka''; ''zlos gar'') | #performance, drama (''nāṭaka''; Tib. ཟློས་གར་, Wyl. ''zlos gar'') | ||
#poetry (''kāvya''; ''snyan ngag'') | #poetry (''kāvya''; Tib. སྙན་ངག་, Wyl. ''snyan ngag'') | ||
#composition (''chanda''; ''sdeb sbyor'') | #composition (''chanda''; Tib. སྡེབ་སྦྱོར་, Wyl. ''sdeb sbyor'') | ||
Latest revision as of 20:33, 30 January 2017
The five minor sciences (Tib. རིག་གནས་ཆུང་ལྔ་, rigné chung nga; Wyl. rig gnas chung lnga) are part of the ten sciences or traditional fields of knowledge in which a learned person, or pandita, is supposed to be well versed.
- synonyms (Skt. abhidhāna; Tib. མངོན་བརྗོད་, Wyl. mngon brjod)
- mathematics and astrology (jyotiṣa; Tib. སྐར་རྩིས་, Wyl. skar rtsis)
- performance, drama (nāṭaka; Tib. ཟློས་གར་, Wyl. zlos gar)
- poetry (kāvya; Tib. སྙན་ངག་, Wyl. snyan ngag)
- composition (chanda; Tib. སྡེབ་སྦྱོར་, Wyl. sdeb sbyor)