Ngo bo
| Key Term | ngo bo |
|---|---|
| Hover Popup Choices | ngo bo; ngowo |
| In Tibetan Script | ངོ་བོ་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | ngo bo |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script | भाव |
| Romanized Sanskrit | bhāva |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | ngowo |
| English Standard | essential nature |
| Richard Barron's English Term | essence; essence (of being); essential nature |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | entity |
| Dan Martin's English Term | substance. NOT in the sense of material substance (as in materialism). |
| Gyurme Dorje's English Term | essential nature |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Source Language | Tibetan |
| Basic Meaning | Essence, or the most basic, fundamental nature or natural state of being. It is often used as a synonym for rang bzhin. |
| Has the Sense of | According to Ives Waldo, it is similar to rang bzhin, but when referring to sugatagarbha, ngo bo refers to the emptiness part, whereas rang bzhin refers to the luminosity or clarity part. |
| Related Terms | svabhāva;rang bzhin |
| Definitions | |
| Rangjung Yeshe's English Term | svabhava 1) *, nature, character, attribute, identity, entity, intrinsic / central / essential nature, vital substance, core, being, inmost nature. 2) principle, existence, fact. 3) entity, fact of being, identity. 4) definition, main principle. 5) what it comes down to, at bottom, in fact, 5) essential meaning [in textual introduction]. |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo | rang bzhin dang gnas lugs |
| Synonyms | rang bzhin |