[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Arthaviniścayasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra) › [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo) › [Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000) › intro.8 # དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས intro.8 Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings intro.8 - **Language:** English ### [intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings is a step-by-step contemplation of all facets of reality and freedom from suffering. It starts with the five aggregates that constitute the common basis of defilement and purification and goes through the teachings on selflessness, the path to realize selflessness, and the higher stages of realization, and it culminates in the special features that belong exclusively to a fully awakened buddha. This invaluable archive of Buddhist terms and ideas is to be well absorbed and remembered, so as to make all other teachings easier to comprehend. - [Previous: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Next: intro.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.9) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) · Pramāṇa