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སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པ།
skye ba med pa
anutpāda
- Term
Publications: 4
Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman
- Birthlessness
- མི་སྐྱེ་བ།
- mi skye ba
- anutpādatva
This refers to the ultimate nature of reality, to the fact that, ultimately, nothing has ever been produced or born nor will it ever be because birth and production can occur only on the relative, or superficial, level. Hence “birthlessness” is a synonym of “voidness,” “reality,” “absolute,” “ultimate,” “infinity,” etc.
Translation by Chloé Cramer · Ben Ewing · Lowell Cook · Oriane Lavole
- Birthlessness
- སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པ།
- skye ba med pa
- ajātakatvā
The state of not having arisen, begun, or been born.
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Non-arising
- མི་སྐྱེ་བ།
- སྐྱེ་བ་མ་མཆིས་པ།
- སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པ།
- mi skye ba
- skye ba ma mchis pa
- skye ba med pa
- anutpādita
- anutpāda
- asamutthāna
Translation by James B. Apple Ph.D.
- Unproduced
- སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པ།
- skye ba med pa
- anutpāda