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ཉམས་མྱོང་
Transliteration: nyams myong
<noun> "Experience". The actual experience of anything. E.g., in coll. ངས་ཉམས་མྱོང་ཐོབ་སོང་། "(now) I have the experience of that".
In some cases, this means the ཉམས་ actual experience as opposed to གོ་བ་ an intellectual understanding of it. E.g., it is freq. used in Buddhist literature concerning meditation and/or the view where it denotes experience of something gained on the path or through the practice but not the final result of the path / practice. Thus, in these contexts, the term also conveys the sense of "temporary", "not final". Hence, it is sometimes translated as "temporary experience".