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The “basis for the negation” (dgag-gzhi) is the item that is devoid of an object to be negated.

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Three: Analysis of the Gelug Prasangika Assertions 2009

A nonimplicative negation phenomenon (med-dgag, nonaffirming negation) is an exclusion of something else in which, after the sounds of the words that exclude the object to be negated have negated that object, they do not leave behind in their wake, explicitly or implicitly, something else.

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena 2009

An implicative negation phenomenon (ma-yin dgag, affirming negation) is an exclusion of something else (gzhan-sel) in which, after the sounds of the words that exclude the object to be negated have negated that object, they leave behind in their wake (bkag-shul), explicitly or implicitly, something else.

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena 2009

Discriminating awareness of voidness focuses on an absolute absence (med-dgag, nonimplicative negation) of true existence, with the understanding that there is no such manner of existence.

6 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General 2009

A negation phenomenon (dgag-pa, negatingly known phenomenon) is a validly knowable phenomenon that is apprehended in a manner in which an object to be negated is explicitly precluded by the conceptual cognition that cognizes the phenomenon.

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part One: Temporally Related Phenomena 2009

Negation phenomena (dgag-pa), such as denumerable voidness are merely conceptual categories (spyi, universals), and, as such, can only be known conceptually.

7 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra 2009

For example, although Chittamatra and Svatantrika assert different objects nullified (dgag-bya) by the voidness of all phenomena, nevertheless both tenet systems assert as objects of valid cognition findable defining characteristics on the side of voidness.

The Five Great Madhyamaka Lines of Reasoning Used to Establish Voidness 2009

An affirmation phenomenon (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon) is a validly knowable phenomenon that is apprehended in a manner in which an object to be negated (dgag-bya) is not explicitly precluded, cut off, dismissed, or rejected by the sounds that express the phenomenon.

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part One: Temporally Related Phenomena 2009

Denumerable voidness is voidness as the nonimplicative negation (med-dgag, affirming negation) of true unimputed existence.

7 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra 2009

This is not an affirmation phenomenon (sgrub-pa), as in the dichotomy affirmation phenomena and negation phenomena (dgag-pa).

Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 1 Obtaining the Necessities for Practice Beru Khyentse Rinpoche 2006