諦

To judge, examine into, investigate, used in Buddhism for (sa) satya, a truth, a dogma, an axiom; applied to the (sa) āryasatyāni, the four dogmas, or noble truths, of 苦, 集, 滅, and 道 suffering, (the cause of its) assembly, the ( possibility of its cure, or) extinction, and the way (to extinction), i.e. the eightfold noble path, v. 四諦 and 八聖道. There are other categories of 諦, e.g.

(2) 真 and 俗 Reality in contrast with ordinary ideas of things;

(3) 空, 假 and 中 q.v.

(6) by the 勝論宗; and

(8) by the 法相宗.