Svabhāva
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| 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 |
