Parikalpitasvabhāva
From Bodhicitta
परिकल्पितस्वभाव parikalpitasvabhāva
imaginary nature
ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
kun btags kyi rang bzhin
Sanskrit - Noun
Basic Meaning
The first of the three natures, according to the Yogācāra school. It is the imaginary nature which is falsely projected onto an object out of confusion.
Has the Sense of
The artificial and mistaken perception of phenomena as being something which they are not.
| Term Variations | |
| Key Term | Parikalpitasvabhāva |
|---|---|
| Topic Variation | parikalpitasvabhāva |
| Tibetan | ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ ( kuntak kyi rangzhin) |
| Wylie Transliteration | kun btags kyi rang bzhin ( kuntak kyi rangzhin) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | परिकल्पितस्वभाव |
| Romanized Sanskrit | parikalpitasvabhāva |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | imaginary nature |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | imaginary nature |
| Richard Barron's English Term | conceptually ascribed nature |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | imputational nature |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | imputed nature |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | The first of the three natures, according to the Yogācāra school. It is the imaginary nature which is falsely projected onto an object out of confusion. |
| Has the Sense of | The artificial and mistaken perception of phenomena as being something which they are not. |
| Did you know? | The classic example of this is somebody in a dark room seeing a rope and thinking it is a snake. |
| Related Terms | trisvabhāva |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary | The imagined (kun brtags) is the two kinds of self-entity. |
