ངོ་བོ་ཉིད།

84000 Glossary of Terms

Our trilingual glossary combining entries from all of our publications into one useful resource, giving translations and definitions of thousands of terms, people, places, and texts from the Buddhist canon.

ngo bo nyid

svabhāva

Term

Publications: 7

This term denotes the ontological status of phenomena, according to which they are said to possess existence in their own right‍—inherently, in and of themselves, objectively, and independent of any other phenomena such as our conception and labelling. The absence of such an ontological reality is defined as the true nature of reality, emptiness.

Translated as:

Intrinsic nature

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

Translation by Gareth Sparham

Intrinsic nature

ངོ་བོ་ཉིད།
རང་བཞིན།

ngo bo nyid
rang bzhin

svabhāva

This term denotes the ontological status of phenomena, according to which they are said to possess existence in their own right‍—inherently, in and of themselves, objectively, and independent of any other phenomena such as our conception and labelling. The absence of such an ontological reality is defined as the true nature of reality, emptiness. Also rendered here as “basic nature.”

267 passages contain this term

The Dhāraṇī “Entering into Nonconceptuality”

Translation by Ryan Damron

Intrinsic nature

ངོ་བོ་ཉིད།

ngo bo nyid

svabhāva

6 passages contain this term

The Long Explanation of the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand, Twenty-Five Thousand, and Eighteen Thousand Lines

Translation by Gareth Sparham

Intrinsic nature

ངོ་བོ་ཉིད།

ngo bo nyid

svabhāva

This term denotes the ontological status of phenomena, according to which they are said to possess existence in their own right‍—inherently, in and of themselves, objectively, and independent of any other phenomena such as our conception and labelling. The absence of such an ontological reality is defined as the true nature of reality, emptiness.

326 passages contain this term