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'''Imputed nature''' (Skt. ''parikalpita-svabhāva'') ― 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> | '''Imputed nature''' (Skt. ''parikalpita-svabhāva'') ― 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> | ||
==Alternative Translations== | |||
*Imaginary (Karl Brunnhölzl) | |||
*Imagined (Jay L. Garfield) | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 09:27, 13 February 2018
Imputed nature (Skt. parikalpita-svabhāva) ― 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]
Alternative Translations
- Imaginary (Karl Brunnhölzl)
- Imagined (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