84000 Glossary of Terms

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རང་བཞིན་དུ་གནས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རང་བཞིན་དུ་གནས་པ།

  • rang bzhin du gnas pa
  • svabhāvasthita
  • nisargabhāva
  • Term
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  • naturally present
  • རང་བཞིན་དུ་གནས་པ།
  • rang bzhin du gnas pa
  • svabhāvasthita
  • svabhāvasthita
  • nisargabhāva
Definition in this text:

Schmithausen understands this term as meaning “normal”: “should we [indeed] say that even the normal (rang bzhin du gnas pa, *prakṛtisthita?) images…” (Schmithausen 2014, p. 392, n. 1733). I understand the use of rang bzhin du gnas pa as implying a context where the object of the cognition is not an object of concentration corresponding to visualization practices as in the case of the kasiṇa. In the Pāli tradition, kasiṇa designates a visualization object used as a support for the totality of the meditator’s attention. In this paragraph, sems can has the connotation of beings who do not practice the yoga taught in this chapter, that is, ordinary beings.