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ཆོས་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
- Term
The real nature, true quality, or condition of things. Throughout Buddhist discourse this term is used in two distinct ways. In one, it designates either the relative nature that is either the essential characteristic of a specific phenomenon, such as the heat of fire and the moisture of water, or the defining feature of a specific term or category. The other, very important and widespread way it is used is to designate the ultimate nature of all phenomena, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms and is often synonymous with emptiness or the absence of intrinsic existence.
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Also rendered here as “nature of reality.”
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
A synonym of emptiness.
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā AD
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Throughout Buddhist discourse this term is used both in regard to the specific relative characteristics of phenomena, such as the heat of fire and the moisture of water, and in terms of their common ultimate characteristic, emptiness.
- Reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Lit. the “nature of phenomena” or “phenomena themselves.” The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms.
(Note that the term “reality” has also been used to render terms of similar meaning such as yang dag nyid and others.)
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The true or real nature of phenomena.
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Lit. the “nature of phenomena,” or “phenomena themselves.” The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Also rendered here as “nature” or “truth.”
Note that the term “reality” has also been used to render terms of similar meaning such as yang dag (nyid), as in “limit of reality” (yang dag pa’i mtha’).
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Lit. the “nature of phenomena,” or “phenomena themselves.” The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Akin to other terms rendered here as thatness (tattva, de kho na nyid), true reality (bhūtatā, yang dag pa nyid), and suchness (tathatā, de bzhin nyid).
- reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The intrinsic or real nature of phenomena.
- dharmatā
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The nature of the dharmas, or their state.
- dharmatā
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Literally the “nature of phenomena” or “phenomena themselves.” The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Akin to other terms such as thatness (tattva, de kho na nyid), true reality (bhūtatā, yang dag pa nyid), and suchness (tathatā, de bzhin nyid).
- dharmatā
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The condition of things as they truly are, undistorted by conceptual thinking.
- dharmatā
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
See “true nature of dharmas.”
- nature of reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Also rendered here simply as “reality.”
- nature of reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
Literally, the “nature of phenomena,” or “phenomena themselves.” The quality or condition of things as they really are, which eludes appropriation by conceptual thought.
- nature of reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The state of phenomena as they are according to the absolute truth.
- true nature of dharmas
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
“True nature of dharmas” renders dharmatā (chos nyid). In dharmatā the -tā ending is the English “-ness.” The dharma is an attribute of a dharmin (an “attribute possessor”). The attribute is the ultimate, emptiness. The attribute possessors are all phenomena. So, it means “the true nature [= -ness] of the attribute [emptiness].” The issue is further complicated by the widespread use of the word dharma as phenomenon (as in “all dharmas”) and so on. In such contexts it is not a word for the ultimate attribute, but for any phenomenon.
- true nature of dharmas
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The nature of phenomena, in terms of their specialized relative characteristics, such as the heat of fire, the moisture of water, etc.; and in terms of their common ultimate quality, emptiness, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms.
- true nature of dharmas
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
“True nature of dharmas” renders dharmatā (chos nyid). In dharmatā the -tā ending is the English “-ness.” The dharma is an attribute of a dharmin (an “attribute possessor”). The attribute is the ultimate, emptiness. The attribute possessors are all phenomena. So, it means “the true nature [= -ness] of the attribute [emptiness].” The issue is further complicated by the widespread use of the word dharma as phenomenon (as in “all dharmas”) and so on. In such contexts it is not a word for the ultimate attribute, but for any phenomenon.
Also rendered here as “true dharmic nature” and simply as dharmatā.
- nature of phenomena
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
- nature of phenomena
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Throughout Buddhist discourse this term is used both in regard to the specialized relative characteristics of phenomena, such as the heat of fire and the moisture of water, and in terms of their common ultimate characteristic, emptiness.
- true dharmic nature
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
See “true nature of dharmas.”
- true dharmic nature
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
See “true nature of dharmas.”
- true nature
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
- true nature
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Throughout Buddhist discourse this term is used both in regard to the specialized relative characteristics of phenomena, such as the heat of fire and the moisture of water, and in terms of their common ultimate characteristic, emptiness.
- intrinsic nature
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The nature of phenomena, in terms of their specialized relative characteristics, such as the heat of fire, the moisture of water, etc.; and in terms of their common ultimate characteristic, emptiness.
- natural state
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
See “true nature of dharmas.”
- suchness
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā
The nature of phenomena.
- ultimate reality
- ཆོས་ཉིད།
- chos nyid
- dharmatā