Neyārtha

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Key Term	neyārtha
Hover Popup Choices	provisional; expedient
In Tibetan Script	དྲང་དོན་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	drang don
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	नेयार्थ
Romanized Sanskrit	neyārtha
English Standard	provisional meaning
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term	expedient meaning
Richard Barron's English Term	conditional meaning; provisional meaning
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	interpretable meaning; requiring interpretation
Dan Martin's English Term	directed meaning
Gyurme Dorje's English Term	provisional meaning
Ives Waldo's English Term	expedient meaning
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.
Has the Sense of	Something that is taught as a means to an end.
Related Terms	nītārtha
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	gdul bya thun mong ba rnams kha drang ba'i phyir du 'jig rten snang tshod du grags pa gtsor byas pa/ gang zag dang sems can dang/ phung khams skye mched la sogs pa dang/ de dag gi skye 'gag 'gro 'ong la sogs pa smra bsam brjod pa'i rim pas gzhal zhing sgro btags nas bstan pa dang/ de rjod byed kyi gsung rab dgongs 'grel dang bcas pa'o/
Other Definitions	"While Tibetan thinkers generally characterize definitive teachings as those that explicitly teach ultimate truth, which is the ultimate purport of the Buddha's teachings, and provisional teachings as those teachings that do not explain ultimate truth clearly and that require further interpretation in order to ascertain the ultimate purport of the Buddha's intent, they disagree on which of the Buddha's teachings are definitive or provisional." - Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows (2017), page 3.
Further Reading Material	Lipman Kennard. "Nītārtha, Neyārtha, and Tathāgatagarbha in Tibet." Journal of Indian Philosophy 8, no. 1 (1980): 87-95.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

"Ultimate truth" or "absolute truth"; the reality of things as they truly are.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.