Editing Two truths doctrine (section)

==Etymology and meaning==
''[[Satya]]'' is usually taken to mean "truth", but also refers to "a reality", "a genuinely real existent".{{sfn|Harvey|2012|p=50}} ''Satya'' (''Sat-yá'')<ref name=aam/> is derived from [[Sat (Sanskrit)|''Sat'']] and ''ya''. ''Sat'' means being, reality, and is the [[present participle]] of the root ''as'', "to be" ([[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] {{wikt-lang|ine-x-proto|*h₁es-}}; cognate to English {{wikt-lang|en|is}}).<ref name=aam>[[Arthur Anthony Macdonell|A. A. Macdonell]], Sanskrit English Dictionary, Asian Educational Services, {{ISBN|978-8120617797}}, pp 330-331</ref> ''Ya'' and ''yam'' means "advancing, supporting, hold up, sustain, one that moves".<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=yA&direction=SE&script=HK&link=yes&beginning=0 yA] Sanskrit English Dictionary</ref><ref>[http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/tamil/index.html ''yam''] Monier Williams' Sanskrit English Dictionary, Univ of Koeln, Germany</ref> As a composite word, ''Satya'' and ''Satyam'' imply that "which supports, sustains and advances reality, being"; it literally means, "that which is true, actual, real, genuine, trustworthy, valid".<ref name=aam/>

The two truths doctrine states that there is:
* ''Provisional ''or conventional truth ([[Sanskrit]] {{IAST|''saṁvṛti''}}''-satya'', [[Pāli]] ''sammuti sacca'', [[Tibetan alphabet|Tibetan]] ''kun-rdzob bden-pa''), which describes our daily experience of a concrete world, and
* ''Ultimate'' truth (Sanskrit {{Transliteration|sa|paramārtha-satya}}, Pāli ''paramattha sacca'', Tibetan: ''don-dam bden-pa''), which describes the ultimate reality as ''[[śūnyatā]]'', empty of concrete and inherent characteristics.

The 7th-century Buddhist philosopher [[Chandrakirti|Chandrakīrti]] suggests three possible meanings of {{IAST|''saṁvṛti''}}: {{sfn|Matilal|2002|pp=203-208}}
# complete covering or the "screen" of ignorance which hides truth;
# existence or origination through dependence, mutual conditioning;
# worldly behavior or speech behavior involving designation and designatum, cognition and cognitum.

The conventional truth may be interpreted as "obscurative truth" or "that which obscures the true nature" as a result. It is constituted by the appearances of mistaken awareness. Conventional truth would be the appearance that includes a duality of apprehender and apprehended, and objects perceived within that. Ultimate truths are phenomena free from the duality of apprehender and apprehended.<ref name="LevinsonAug06">Levinson, Jules (August 2006) [http://www.berotsana.org/pdf/lotsawa_timesII_sc.pdf Lotsawa Times Volume II] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724083326/http://www.berotsana.org/pdf/lotsawa_timesII_sc.pdf |date=July 24, 2008 }}</ref>