Tathatā

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Key Term	tathatā
In Tibetan Script	དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	de bzhin nyid
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	तथता
Romanized Sanskrit	tathatā
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	day zhin nyi
English Standard	suchness
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term	suchness
Richard Barron's English Term	Suchness itself
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	thusness
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	Suchness itself, absolute reality, or thusness, as in the ultimate state of being of phenomena.
Has the Sense of	A synonym for emptiness or the nature of things, dharmatā; it can also be used to describe the unity of dependent origination and emptiness. (Source: Erik Pema Kunsang, Lamp of Mahamudra, 1989.)
Related Terms	dharmatā
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	spros pa dang bral ba'i chos kyi dbyings so
sutra/śastra quote:	Since the perfect buddhakaya radiates, Since suchness is undifferentiable, And because of the disposition, All beings always possess the buddha heart. Ratnagotravibhāga, Verse I.28
sutra/śastra quote source:	When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 356-357.
Usage Example	संबुद्धकायस्फरणात् तथताव्यतिभेदतः गोत्रतश्च सदा सर्वे बुद्धगर्भाः शरीरिणः saṃbuddhakāyaspharaṇāt tathatāvyatibhedataḥ gotrataśca sadā sarve buddhagarbhāḥ śarīriṇaḥ E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West །རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང་། །དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང་། །རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། །རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན། Dege, PHI, 111

Suchness itself, absolute reality, or thusness, as in the ultimate state of being of phenomena.

The notion that all phenomena arise in dependence on causes and conditions.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.