Dependent nature

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Dependent nature―something that is dependent or other-dependent (Skt. Paratantra; Tib. གཞན་དབང་, Wyl. gzhan dbang) exists only in and through dependence on another thing, so in this case, phenomena exist in dependence on the mind and its processes.[1]

References

  1. From an article by Jay L. Garfield in Vasubandhu’s Treatise on the Three Natures in Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN: 978-0-19-532817-2

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