]> 2026-10-13T05:32:32-04:00 Key Terms/paramārthasatya 0 en paramārthasatya paramārthasatya "Ultimate truth" or "absolute truth"; the reality of things as they truly are. 眞諦 第一義諦 bden pa gnyis kyi ya gyal zhig ste/ bye brag smra bas gang zhig bcom pa'am blos cha shas so sor bsal ba na rang 'dzin gyi blo 'dor du mi rung ba'i chos cha med gnyis dang/ mdo sde pas sgra rtog gis btags par ma ltos par rang gi sdod lugs kyi ngos nas rigs pas dpyad bzod du grub pa'i chos rang mtshan dang/ sems tsam pas don dam dpyod byed kyi rig shes tshad mas rnyed don yongs grub kyi chos/ dbu ma pas rang mngon sum du rtogs pa'i mngon sum tshad mas rang nyid gnyis snang nub pa'i tshul gyis rtogs par bya ba gnas lugs stong pa nyid la 'dod pa bcas 'dod lugs mi 'dra ba bzhi yod/ परमार्थसत्य ultimate truth ultimate truth ultimate sense ultimate truth ultimate truth ultimate truth ultimate reality ultimate truth The Sanskrit for "ultimate truth," ''paramārthasatya'', is etymologized three ways within identifying ''parama'' as "highest" or "ultimate," ''artha'' as "object," and ''satya'' as "truth." In the first way, ''parama'' (highest, ultimate) refers to a consciousness of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness; ''artha'' (object) refers to the object of that consciousness, emptiness; and ''satya'' (truth) also refers to emptiness in that in direct perception emptiness appears the way it exists; that is, there is no discrepancy between the mode of appearance and the mode of being. In this interpretation, a ''paramārthasatya'' is a "truth-that-is-an-object-of-the-highest-consciousness."<br><br>In the second way, both ''parama'' (highest, ultimate) and ''artha'' (object) refer to a consciousness of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness in that, in the broadest meaning of "object," both objects and subjects are objects, and a consciousness of meditative equipoise directly realizing emptiness is the highest consciousness and thus highest object; ''satya'' (truth), as before, refers to emptiness. In this second interpretation, a ''paramārthasatya'' is an emptiness that exists the way it appears to a highest consciousness, a "truth-of-a-highest-object."<br><br>In the third etymology, all three parts refer to emptiness in that an emptiness is the highest (the ultimate) and is also an object and a truth, a "truth-that-is-the-highest-object." See Donald S. Lopez Jr., ''A Study of Svātantrika'', (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1986), 314–315. Chandrakīrti, the chief Consequentialist, favors the third etymology in his ''Clear Words''; See Jang-ḡya's ''Presentation of Tenets'', 467.18. (Jeffrey Hopkins, ''Reflections on Reality: The Three Natures and Non-Natures in the Mind-Only School'' [Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2006], 267, note c.) shintai daiichigitai paramārthasatya Noun dön dam denpa zhendì dì yī yì dì saṃvṛtisatya paramārthasatya "There is no higher truth to be seen. The mind that sees that reality experiences truth as it is. Thus it is called "ultimate truth," the essential mode of existence. For all other truths, their mode of appearance and their essential mode of existence are incongruent. Thus, they are called deceptive and superficial." - The 14th Dalai Lama, ''Transcendent Wisdom'' (1988) Sanskrit Relative and ultimate,<br> These the two truths are declared to be.<br> The ultimate is not within the reach of intellect,<br> For intellect is said to be the relative. ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'', Padmakara Translation Group, 2008, page 229 དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་ paramārthasatya '''Sanskrit:''' :saṃvṛtiḥ paramārthaś ca satyadvayam idaṃ matam :buddher agocaras tattvaṃ buddhiḥ saṃvṛtir ucyate ::Śāntideva, ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' 9.2 '''Tibetan:''' :ཀུན་རྫོབ་དང་ནི་དོན་དམ་སྟེ་ :འདི་ནི་བདེན་པ་གཉིས་སུ་འདོད་ :དོན་དམ་བློ་ཡི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་མིན་ :བློ་ནི་ཀུན་རྫོབ་ཡིན་པར་བརྗོད་ ::བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་པའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ 9.2 don dam bden pa paramārthasatya;paramārthasatya;paramārthasatya;ultimate truth; ultimate reality; absolute truth; 2018-05-16T19:21:10Z 2458255.3063657 2018-05-16T19:21:10Z 2458255.3063657 true paramārthasatya paramārthasatya - "Ultimate truth" or "absolute truth"; the reality of things as they truly are. 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