sound; term; roar; voice; message; sense-field; occasion for; source; voice; meaningful sound; sounds; language; vocal sounds; speech; {GD:681} verbal testimony Comment: This is one of the five divisions of external matter (phyi'i bem po): form (gzugs); sound (sgra); smell (dri); taste (ro); tangible object (reg bya). Assertions on sounds assume considerable importance in Buddhist tenet systems since they provide an avenue for discounting non-Buddhist assertions that the sounds of the Vedas are eternally authoritative. Buddhist systems emphasize that sounds do not of their accord express their meanings but are arbitrary conventions.
{ces pa'i sgra kun gyis thos so} everyone heard these words
language, sound, verbal testimony [ggd]
sound; voice; language; grammar; (technical) terminology; sound; renown, repute, account; a sound, noise, voice, term, sonorous, inarticulate speech, word, term, voice, cry, cry of animals, name, inflection, language, philology, grammar, pronunciation; grammar
<person> Gada, Sound
<term> echoing sound, sound, grammar