Definitive teaching

A passage in a sutra text that discusses the most profound view of voidness, and to which all other passages in all other sutra texts eventually lead or point. Such passages do not need to be explained as indicating anything more profound.

Tibetan: ངེས་དོན། nges-don

Sanskrit: nītārtha

J. Hopkins: Definitive meaning


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Italiano: Insegnamento definitivo

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