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'''Imputed nature''' (Skt. ''parikalpita-svabhāva''; [[Wyl.]] ''kun brtags mtshan nyid'') ― the first of the [[three natures]] presented in the [[Mind Only]] school. Imputed or imaginary (Skt. ''parikalpita''; Tib. [[ཀུན་བརྟགས་]], ''küntak'', | '''Imputed nature''' (Skt. ''parikalpita-svabhāva''; Tib. ཀུན་བརྟགས་མཚན་ཉིད་, ''küntak tsennyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''kun brtags mtshan nyid'') ― the first of the [[three natures]] presented in the [[Mind Only]] school. Imputed or imaginary (Skt. ''parikalpita''; Tib. [[ཀུན་བརྟགས་]], ''küntak'', Wyl. ''kun btags''), in this sense, does not mean to be hallucinatory as opposed to being real, it is to be constructed as an object by the operation of the mind.<ref>From an article by Jay L. Garfield on [[Vasubandhu]]’s ''[[Treatise on the Three Natures]]'' in ''Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings'', Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN: 978-0-19-532817-2</ref> | ||
==Subdivisions== | |||
The imputed is divided into: | |||
*"the imputed lacking identity" and | |||
*"the nominally imputed." | |||
Examples of the former include the horns of a rabbit, the child of a barren woman, and flowers in the sky. The latter includes such things as pillars and vases.<ref>[[Khenpo Ngakchung]], ''[[Zindri]]'' (Shambhala, 2004), page 206.</ref> | |||
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
Latest revision as of 19:13, 2 March 2024
Imputed nature (Skt. parikalpita-svabhāva; Tib. ཀུན་བརྟགས་མཚན་ཉིད་, küntak tsennyi, Wyl. kun brtags mtshan nyid) ― the first of the three natures presented in the Mind Only school. Imputed or imaginary (Skt. parikalpita; Tib. ཀུན་བརྟགས་, küntak, Wyl. kun btags), in this sense, does not mean to be hallucinatory as opposed to being real, it is to be constructed as an object by the operation of the mind.[1]
Subdivisions
The imputed is divided into:
- "the imputed lacking identity" and
- "the nominally imputed."
Examples of the former include the horns of a rabbit, the child of a barren woman, and flowers in the sky. The latter includes such things as pillars and vases.[2]
Alternative Translations
- Imaginary nature (Karl Brunnhölzl)
- Imagined nature (Jay L. Garfield)
References
- ↑ From an article by Jay L. Garfield on Vasubandhu’s Treatise on the Three Natures in Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN: 978-0-19-532817-2
- ↑ Khenpo Ngakchung, Zindri (Shambhala, 2004), page 206.