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Pristine, meaning unsullied, or unmodified from a natural state, may also refer to: Pristine (band), Norwegian blues rock band; Pristine (company), software company; Pristine apple, hybrid cultivar; Pristine Audio, music company; Priştine Detachment, Ottoman Empire military unit
The origin of the name of the city is unknown. Eric P. Hamp connected the word with an Indo-European derivative *pṛ-tu-(ford) + *stein (cognate to English stone) which in Proto-Albanian, spoken in the region before the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan (1st–2nd century CE) produced Pristina. [9]
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Vimalamitra's Great Commentary, defines tögal as "the practice of the direct perception of pristine consciousness" which is for "the diligent who gradually attain buddhahood through meditation." [ 5 ] Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche glosses the term as "to proceed directly to the goal without having to go through intermediate steps."
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