darsana

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Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit दर्शन (dárśana).

Noun

darsana (plural darsanas)

  1. (India philosophy) A philosophy, worldview.
    • 2000, Sue Hamilton, Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, published 2001, page 12:
      In presenting its ‘view’ of the truth, each darśana is as it were describing what it is that its practitioners will ‘see’.

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