| Key Term |
svabhāva |
| In Tibetan Script |
རང་བཞིན་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration |
rang bzhin |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script |
स्वभाव |
| Romanized Sanskrit |
svabhāva |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering |
rangzhin |
| Chinese Script |
自性 |
| Chinese Pinyin |
zìxìng |
| English Standard |
intrinsic nature |
| Richard Barron's English Term |
nature of being |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term |
inherent nature |
| Dan Martin's English Term |
own-ness |
| Ives Waldo's English Term |
intrinsic; ordinary; spontaneous |
| Term Type |
Noun |
| Source Language |
Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning |
intrinsic nature |
| Has the Sense of |
natural, ordinary expression of a thing |
| Definitions |
| Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism |
See page 879: In Sanskrit, “self-nature,” “intrinsic existence,” or “inherent existence,” the term has a general sense of “essence” or “nature,” but is used in philosophical literature. |
| Rangjung Yeshe's English Term |
An inherently existent and independent entity of the individual self or of phenomena. Something that can serve as a valid basis for individual attributes. |
| Other Definitions |
Richard Barron: the very nature of things |