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ཡང་དག | Glossary of Terms
ཡང་དག
yang dag pa
bhūtatā
- Term
- The real
- ཡང་དག
- yang dag pa
- bhūtatā
Lit. “genuineness” or “authenticity.” 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 “as it really is,” “suchness,” and “natural state.”
- True reality
- ཡང་དག་པ་ཉིད།
- yang dag pa nyid
- bhūtatā
Lit. “genuineness” or “authenticity.” 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), suchness (tathatā, de bzhin nyid), and reality (dharmatā, chos nyid).