| Key Term |
parikalpitasvabhāva |
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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. |