Parikalpitasvabhāva
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| Key Term | parikalpitasvabhāva |
|---|---|
| Hover Popup Choices | imaginary nature |
| In Tibetan Script | ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | kun btags kyi rang bzhin |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script | परिकल्पितस्वभाव |
| Romanized Sanskrit | parikalpitasvabhāva |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | kuntak kyi rangzhin |
| English Standard | imaginary nature |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | imaginary nature |
| Richard Barron's English Term | conceptually ascribed nature |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | imputational nature |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | imputed nature |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | The first of the three natures, according to the Yogācāra school. It is the imaginary nature which is falsely projected onto an object out of confusion. |
| Has the Sense of | The artificial and mistaken perception of phenomena as being something which they are not. |
| Did you know? | The classic example of this is somebody in a dark room seeing a rope and thinking it is a snake. |
| Related Terms | trisvabhāva |
| Definitions | |
| Rangjung Yeshe's English Term | The imagined (kun brtags) is the two kinds of self-entity. |
