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त्रिस्वभाव trisvabhāva
three natures
རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་
rang bzhin gsum
Sanskrit - Noun
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Basic Meaning

According to the Yogācāra school, all phenomena can be divided into three natures or characteristics: the imaginary nature (parikalpitasvabhāva), the dependent nature (paratantrasvabhāva), and the perfect or absolute nature (pariniṣpannasvabhāva).

In other languages
Tibetan
རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་
rang bzhin gsum
Sanskrit
त्रिस्वभाव
trisvabhāva
How translators render it
three naturesBuddha-nature Standard, Karl Brunnhölzl, Gyurme Dorje
three essential naturesGyurme Dorje
In the dictionaries
Tshig mdzod chen mo

shes bya sems tsam pa'i lugs la thams cad mtshan nyid gsum du bsdus pa ste/ kun tu brtags pa'i mtshan nyid dang/ gzhan gyi dbang gi mtshan nyid/ yongs su grub pa'i mtshan nyid bcas so/

Term type
Noun
Source language
Sanskrit
Topic
trisvabhāva
Synonyms
trilakṣana
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