Dharmadhātu
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Key Term | dharmadhātu |
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Hover Popup Choices | dharmadhātu; dharmadhatu |
In Tibetan Script | ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ |
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | chos dbyings |
Devanagari Sanskrit Script | धर्मधातु |
Romanized Sanskrit | dharmadhātu |
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | chöying |
Chinese Script | 法界 |
English Standard | expanse of phenomena |
Richard Barron's English Term | basic space of phenomena |
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | sphere of reality |
Gyurme Dorje's English Term | expanse of reality |
Ives Waldo's English Term | ultimate sphere |
Term Type | Noun |
Source Language | Sanskrit |
Basic Meaning | The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. |
Has the Sense of | The ultimate source of phenomenal appearances, or the basic nature which allows for phenomena to arise in all their multiplicity. It is often treated as a synonym for emptiness and the ultimate truth. |
Related Terms | śūnyatā;paramārthasatya |
Definitions | |
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term | Dharmadhatu, ultimate sphere, totality of being, total field of events and meanings, the sphere of Dharma, field of all events and meanings, reality field, element of [superior] qualities, dharmadhatu, realm of dharmas, {chos khams}; the dimension of all existence; the expanse of All That Is; the sphere of Dharma, expanse of all events, absolute expanse |
Tshig mdzod Chen mo | 1) stong pa nyid/ ... 2) gzugs kyi phung po la sogs pa phung po lnga'i rang bzhin stong pa nyid gang yin pa/ |
Other Definitions | Jeffrey Hopkins' Comment: An equivalent of ultimate truth (don dam bden pa, paramArthasatya) so called because meditation within observing it acts as a cause of the qualities (dharma, chos) of Superiors (Arya, 'phags pa)." Emptiness, being uncaused, is not itself a cause (element), but meditation on it causes the development of marvelous qualities; thus, emptiness comes to be called a cause, an element producing those qualities. |