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.

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.

According to the Yogācāra school, all phenomena can be divided into three natures or characteristics: the imaginary nature (parikalpitasvabhāva), the dependent nature (paratantrasvabhāva), and the perfect or absolute nature (pariniṣpannasvabhāva).

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

According to the Yogācāra school, all phenomena can be divided into three natures or characteristics: the imaginary nature (parikalpitasvabhāva), the dependent nature (paratantrasvabhāva), and the perfect or absolute nature (pariniṣpannasvabhāva).