Key Terms/Parikalpitasvabhāva
From Bodhicitta
परिकल्पितस्वभाव parikalpitasvabhāva
imaginary nature
ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
kun btags kyi rang bzhin
Sanskrit - Noun
1·Discover
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.
2·Explore
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.
In other languages
Tibetan
ཀུན་བཏགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
kun btags kyi rang bzhin
kuntak kyi rangzhin
Sanskrit
परिकल्पितस्वभाव
parikalpitasvabhāva
How translators render it
imaginary natureBuddha-nature Standard, Karl Brunnhölzl
conceptually ascribed natureRichard Barron
imputational natureJeffrey Hopkins
imputed natureIves Waldo
In the dictionaries
Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
The imagined (kun brtags) is the two kinds of self-entity.
