Sanskrit Noun
parikalpitasvabhāva
imaginary nature
परिकल्पितस्वभाव
ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
Basic Meaning
The first of the three natures, according to the Yogācāra school. It is the imaginary nature which is falsely projected onto an object out of confusion.
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| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | parikalpitasvabhāva |
| Topic Variation | parikalpitasvabhāva |
| Tibetan | ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ ( kuntak kyi rangzhin) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | kun btags kyi rang bzhin ( kuntak kyi rangzhin) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | परिकल्पितस्वभाव |
| Romanized Sanskrit | parikalpitasvabhāva |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | imaginary nature |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | imaginary nature |
| Richard Barron's English Term | conceptually ascribed nature |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | imputational nature |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | imputed nature |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | The first of the three natures, according to the Yogācāra school. It is the imaginary nature which is falsely projected onto an object out of confusion. |
| Did you know? | The classic example of this is somebody in a dark room seeing a rope and thinking it is a snake. |
| Related Terms | trisvabhāva |
| Term Type | Noun |
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