Experience. Although the meaning of this term (from the Latin, experientia) may seem at first sight easily ascertainable and definable, it is in fact much more difficult to deal with than may appear. The observations I make through my senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) do provide much of what I may be said to experience, but my range of experience goes far beyond them. Through my imagination, for instance, I can experience a vast spectrum of mental images. I can experience heavens and hells, demons and angels. For Dewey, both observation and reasoning enter into human experience and constitute it, so that part of what we call experience is not observational. That knowledge arises only through experience may indeed be called a truism. The question is, rather, what are the forms that experience takes and what are their respective roles in the discernment of meaning and the attainment of knowledge?

Geddes MacGregor, Dictionary of Religion and Philosophy, New York: Paragon House, 1989

experience : (nt.) 1. vindana; anubhavana; 2. pāṭava; nepuñña; (m.) paricaya. (v.t.) 1. vindati; anubhavati; paṭisaṃvedeti; 2. paricayati; sikkhati. (pp.) vindita; anubhūta; paṭisaṃvedita; paricayita; sikkhita.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

nyams su myong

[tenses]

• myang
• /
• myong
• /
• myangs/
• myongs/

[translation-san] {C} rūpi (=anubhavati)

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} experience

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

nyams su myong ba

[translation-san] {C} anubhavati

[translation-san] {MSA} anubhava

[translation-san] {MSA} pratyanubhavana

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} experience

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

nyams su myong bar byed

[translation-san] {C} pratyanubhavati

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} experience

[translation-eng] {C} experiences

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

nyams su myong bar byed pa

[translation-san] {C} anubhavati

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} experience

[translation-eng] {C} experiences

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary