འདུས་མ་བྱས། | Glossary of Terms
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འདུ་མ་བྱས།
- འདུས་མ་བགྱིས་པ།
- འདུས་མ་བྱས་པ།
- འདུས་མ་བྱས་པའི་ཆོས།
- འདུས་མ་བྱས།
- ’dus ma byas
- ’dus ma byas pa’i chos
- ’dus ma bgyis pa
- ’dus ma byas pa
- ’du ma byas
- asaṃskṛta
- asaṃskṛtadharma
- Term
- unconditioned
- འདུས་མ་བྱས་པ།
- ’dus ma byas pa
- asaṃskṛta
Not composed of constituent parts; not dependent on causes.
- unconditioned
- འདུས་མ་བགྱིས་པ།
- ’dus ma bgyis pa
- asaṃskṛta
Refers to phenomena that are not produced by causes and conditions, such as nirvāṇa.
- unconditioned
- འདུས་མ་བྱས།
- ’dus ma byas
- asaṃskṛta
Not composed of constituent parts; not dependent on causes.
When referring to phenomena or constituents of experience, asaṃskṛta usually means “unconditioned.” But it can also mean “unrefined,” “unadorned,” “unpolished.” It seems that the text is here playing on the multivalence of the term in combination with the multivalence of the term “dharma.”
- unconditioned
- འདུས་མ་བྱས།
- ’dus ma byas
- asaṃskṛta
Refers to phenomena that are not produced by causes and conditions.
- uncompounded
- འདུས་མ་བྱས།
- ’dus ma byas
- asaṃskṛta
- unconditioned phenomena
- འདུས་མ་བྱས་པའི་ཆོས།
- ’dus ma byas pa’i chos
- asaṃskṛtadharma
Unconditioned phenomena are defined in UT22084-026-001-977 as those which are nonarising, nondwelling, and nonperishing, while the Ten Thousand (2.82) adds nontransformation with respect to all things, the cessation of desire, the cessation of hatred, the cessation of delusion, the abiding of phenomena in the real nature, reality, the realm of phenomena, maturity with respect to all things, the real nature, the unmistaken real nature, the one and only real nature, and the finality of existence. Although the Prajñāpāramitā analysis ultimately places all phenomena in this category, that analysis derives its force by contrasting with the way in which the various Abhidharma traditions classify the unconditioned, principally including nirvāṇa and in some cases space and certain kinds of cessation.