84000 Glossary of Terms

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བདེན་པ་གཉིས། | Glossary of Terms

  • བདེན་པ་གཉིས།

  • bden pa gnyis
  • dvayasatya
  • satyadvaya
  • Term
Publications: 3
  • two truths
  • བདེན་པ་གཉིས།
  • bden pa gnyis
  • satyadvaya
Definition in this text:

The ultimate and relative, or conventional, truth.

  • two truths
  • བདེན་པ་གཉིས།
  • bden pa gnyis
  • satyadvaya
Definition in this text:

The relative truth and the ultimate truth. See glossary entries for each. Later schools of Buddhism defined and categorized the two truths in varying ways, but in all cases the presentation of the two truths is understood to be an exhaustive categorization that includes all phenomena. Note that the two truths are not understood to be separate dimensions, but rather as two aspects of the same reality, although from the perspective of the relative truth reality is falsely perceived.

  • two truths
  • བདེན་པ་གཉིས།
  • bden pa gnyis
  • dvayasatya
Definition in this text:

The truths of the way things seem to be and the way they actually are.

1 Related glossary entries:

བདེན་པ།

  • satya
  • reality
  • truth