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སྒྲོ་འདོགས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
སྒྲོ་འདོགས་པ།
sgro ’dogs pa
samāropa
- Term
- Superimposition
- སྒྲོ་འདོགས་པ།
- sgro ’dogs pa
- samāropa
- Superimposition
- སྒྲོ་བཏགས་པ།
- སྒྲོ་འདོགས་པ།
- sgro btags pa
- sgro ’dogs pa
- samāropa
To superimpose inherent existence upon something that does not exist inherently.
- Imputation
- སྒྲོ་འདོགས་པ།
- sgro ’dogs pa
- samāropa
A term that refers to the activity of superimposition or imputing characteristics to things that they do not possess. A paradigm case in Buddhism is the imputation of a singular, self-existent, enduring self to the transient bundle of skandhas that make up a person.
- Project
- སྒྲོ་བཏགས་པ།
- sgro btags pa
- samāropa
To superimpose existence upon something that does not exist; adherents of eternalist views superimpose existence upon something that does not exist. They grasp at a concrete reality. The opposite is the view of nihilists, which denies the existence of phenomena.
- Superimpose
- སྒྲོ་བཏགས།
- sgro btags
- samāropa