[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt) › 52.40 # 宗鏡錄 52.40 English (machine translation) 52.40 - **Language:** English ### [52.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.52.40) Answer: In the ancient explanation distinguishing the three pramāṇas, the seventh's darśanabhāga is non-pramāṇa, because the object does not correspond to the mind. That eighth's darśanabhāga is fundamentally not a self; now the seventh falsely grasps it as a self, which does not correspond to the original substance (bimbamātra). Furthermore, it cannot directly reach and condition the eighth's darśanabhāga, but transforms a nimittabhāga to condition. The nimittabhāga is fundamentally not a self; the seventh again grasps it as a self, which does not correspond to the nimittabhāga either. Thus there is a twofold failure to correspond to the object; hence we know it is non-pramāṇa. In distinguishing the nominal and the real: the seventh cannot reach and condition the other's original substance, the eighth's darśanabhāga, but conditions only the intermediate nominal nimittabhāga of a self; hence the object is nominal, not real. - [Previous: 52.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.52.39) - [Next: 52.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.52.41) - [Up: 52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.52) ## Linked texts (1) - [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.52.40) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.52.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.52.40) · Pramāṇa