internally valid cognition; [opp to {gzhan las nges kyi tshad ma} externally valid cognition]; "valid cognition in which ascertainment is induced by self" [ggd]
a prime cognizer which induces ascertainment by itself Def.: a new incontrovertible knower that is able to induce, through its own power, ascertainment that it by itself would not give rise to if the final nature of its own object of comprehension did not abide in the object one of the two types of prime cognizer; the other is: prime cognizer that induces ascertainment from another (gzhan las nges kyi tshad ma)