(1) In the Sautrantika tenet system, existence established by an individual defining characteristic mark. According to the Gelug Jetsunpa textbook tradition, only objective entities (nonstatic phenomena). (2) In the Chittamatra system, existence established by an individual defining characteristic mark and not exclusively as being something imputed by conceptual cognition and existence established as an object that appears to an arya's total absorption. They include both dependent phenomena (nonstatic phenomena) and voidnesses (thoroughly established phenomena).
Tibetan: དོན་དམ་པ། don-dam-pa
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