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According to Gelug Prasangika, a conventionally existent phenomenon (tha-snyad-du yod-pa) is a validly knowable phenomenon, the existence of which is established by its being merely the referent object (btags-chos) of the name, label, or concept for it.

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

That commonsense yoghurt is a conventional object of experience (tha-snyad spyod-yul), a validly knowable object that maintains its own individual essential nature as yoghurt, and not as something else, to a certain group of beings validly cognizing it.

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

Please note, here, that when we say that our bodies or other forms of physical phenomena that are part of our form aggregate, such as a table or our friend, ripen from our networks of karmic force, we are only speaking of them as the conventional objects that we actually experience when we cognize them (tha-snyad spyod-yul).

The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Three: The Aftermath of Karma 2008

According to the Madhyamaka tenet systems, nonconceptual and conceptual cognition each produce cognitive appearances not only of the extent of what their involved objects are (ji-snyad-pa), but also of how their involved objects exist (ji-lta-ba).

The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation 2006

Audio categories are acoustic patterns adopted as conventions (tha-snyad) in a particular language by the members of a specific society.

Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation 2006

Commonsense objects are equivalent to conventional objects of experience (tha-snyad spyod-yul) – objects of ordinary experience to which the conventions of words or concepts refer.

Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006

Individual persons, private groups of people, and societies speaking a common language establish conventions (tha-snyad) to call, with certain names and labels, sets of objects sharing common defining characteristics.

The Distinction between Self-sufficiently Knowable and Imputedly Knowable Phenomena 2006

Superficial truths (kun-rdzob bden-pa, conventional truth, relative truth) are those phenomena that are findable by a valid cognition scrutinizing (dpyod-pa, analyzing) what is conventional (tha-snyad-pa).

The Validity and Accuracy of Cognition of the Two Truths in Gelug-Prasangika 2006

Audio categories are acoustic patterns adopted as conventions (tha-snyad) in a particular language by the members of a specific society.

Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006

For all cognitions in general, both conceptual (rtog-bcas) and nonconceptual (rtog-med), the involved object is the conventional object actually experienced (tha-snyad spyod-yul).

Introductory Survey of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006