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'''Object-universal''' (Skt. ''artha-sāmānya''; Tib. [[དོན་སྤྱི་]]; [[Wyl.]] ''don spyi'')
'''Object-universal''' (Skt. ''artha-sāmānya''; Tib. [[དོན་སྤྱི་]]; [[Wyl.]] ''don spyi'')


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==  
*idea
*generic image (Hopkins)<ref>Matthew Kapstein says: "The term 'objective generality'  is defined in a great many ways by later Tibetan thinkers. Recent interpreters of tibetan scholastic documents have sometimes used here the term 'generic image', but I think we should be on our guard lest we assimilate the concept to one of mental imagery." (p.91)</ref>
*generic image (Hopkins)<ref>Matthew Kapstein says: "The term 'objective generality'  is defined in a great many ways by later Tibetan thinkers. Recent interpreters of tibetan scholastic documents have sometimes used here the term 'generic image', but I think we should be on our guard lest we assimilate the concept to one of mental imagery." (p.91)</ref>
*idea
*meaning-generality (Klein)
*objective generality (Kapstein)
*objective generality (Kapstein)



Revision as of 13:21, 6 April 2011

Object-universal (Skt. artha-sāmānya; Tib. དོན་སྤྱི་; Wyl. don spyi)

Alternative Translations

  • generic image (Hopkins)[1]
  • idea
  • meaning-generality (Klein)
  • objective generality (Kapstein)

Notes

  1. Matthew Kapstein says: "The term 'objective generality' is defined in a great many ways by later Tibetan thinkers. Recent interpreters of tibetan scholastic documents have sometimes used here the term 'generic image', but I think we should be on our guard lest we assimilate the concept to one of mental imagery." (p.91)