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[[image:Vasubandhu.JPG|thumb|[[Vasubandhu]], author of ''[[Treatise on the Three Natures]]'']] | [[image:Vasubandhu.JPG|thumb|[[Vasubandhu]], author of ''[[Treatise on the Three Natures]]'']] | ||
'''Three natures''' (Skt. ''trisvabhāva''; Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ, རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་, [[Wyl.]] ''mtshan nyid gsum'' or ''rang bzhin gsum'') — the three categories into which the followers of the [[Mind Only]] school divide all phenomena: | '''Three natures''' (Skt. ''trilakṣana'' or ''trisvabhāva''; Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ, རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་, [[Wyl.]] ''mtshan nyid gsum'' or ''rang bzhin gsum'') — the three categories into which the followers of the [[Mind Only]] school divide all [[phenomena]]: | ||
#[[Imputed nature|Imputed]] (Skt. | #[[Imputed nature|Imputed]] (Skt. ''parikalpita''; Tib. [[ཀུན་བརྟགས་]], Wyl. ''kun btags'') | ||
#[[Dependent nature|Dependent]] (Skt. | #[[Dependent nature|Dependent]] (Skt. ''paratantra''; Tib. [[གཞན་དབང་]], Wyl. ''gzhan dbang'') | ||
#[[Truly existent nature|Truly Existent]] (Skt. | #[[Truly existent nature|Truly Existent]] (Skt. ''pariniṣpanna''; Tib. [[ཡོངས་གྲུབ་]], Wyl. ''yongs grub'') | ||
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
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[[Category:Philosophical Tenets]] | [[Category:Philosophical Tenets]] | ||
[[Category:Three | [[Category:Three Natures]] | ||
[[Category:Chittamatra]] | [[Category:Chittamatra]] | ||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category:03-Three]] | [[Category:03-Three]] | ||
Revision as of 09:10, 13 February 2018
Three natures (Skt. trilakṣana or trisvabhāva; Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ, རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་, Wyl. mtshan nyid gsum or rang bzhin gsum) — the three categories into which the followers of the Mind Only school divide all phenomena:
- Imputed (Skt. parikalpita; Tib. ཀུན་བརྟགས་, Wyl. kun btags)
- Dependent (Skt. paratantra; Tib. གཞན་དབང་, Wyl. gzhan dbang)
- Truly Existent (Skt. pariniṣpanna; Tib. ཡོངས་གྲུབ་, Wyl. yongs grub)
Alternative Translations
- Imaginary, Other-dependent & Perfect (Karl Brunnhölzl)
- Imagined, Other-dependent & Consummate (Jay L. Garfield)
- Imputation, Dependence & the Absolute (Lama Chökyi Nyima)
Further Reading
- Jay L. Garfield, 'Vasubandhu's Treatise on the Three Natures' in Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation, Oxford University Press, 2002