A general term for a mental category or mental label. A concept of something need not be verbal. For example, one has a concept of what a pretty face looks like, what one's mother looks like, what a good soup tastes like, what a properly tuned guitar sounds like, what a valid line of reasoning is, what one plus one equals, and so on.
Tibetan: རྟོག་པ། rtog-pa
Synonyms: Idea
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