The Sanskrit terms Pratyavekṣaṇatā and Pratyavekṣaṇātā can be transliterated into English as Pratyaveksanata or Pratyavekshanata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Pratyavekṣaṇātā (प्रत्यवेक्षणाता) [=Pratyavekṣaṇā?] refers to “perceiving (the inverted dharmas as they really are)”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How, son of good family, does the Bodhisattva obtain the mastery (vaśitāprāpta) in the arising of birth and death? When the Bodhisattva is endowed with twelve dharmas, son of good family, he attains the mastery in the arising of birth and death. What are the twelve? [...] (12) he enters into the dharma by its dream-like nature, seeing the essential character of the dharma; (13) he perceives the inverted dharmas as they really are (yathābhūta-pratyavekṣaṇā) [...]”.

context information

Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Pratyavekṣaṇatā (प्रत्यवेक्षणता).—(pratyavekṣaṇa-tā) = next: yoniśodharma-°tāyai Lalitavistara 33.3; yathāśrutadharmayoniśaḥ-°tayā Daśabhūmikasūtra 13.23. Cf. saṃpratyav°.

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Avekshanata, Prati.

Ends with: Sampratyavekshanata.

Full-text: Avekshanata, Pratyavekshana.

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