Svabhāva
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Key Term | svabhāva |
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Hover Popup Choices | intrinsic nature; own nature; self-nature |
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 |
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | nature |
Richard Barron's English Term | nature of being; inherent nature; natural state; naturalness |
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | inherent nature |
Dan Martin's English Term | own-ness |
Gyurme Dorje's English Term | essential nature; natural expression; nature |
Ives Waldo's English Term | intrinsic nature |
Term Type | Noun |
Source Language | Sanskrit |
Basic Meaning | The nature or essence of a thing, which originates only from itself and is not dependent on any external entities, causes, or conditions. |
Has the Sense of | An innate attribute that establishes the completely independent existence of an entity, which is typically refuted in the Madhyamaka notion of emptiness. |
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 |