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དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms
དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
de bzhin nyid
tathatā
- Term
Lit. “thusness” or “suchness.” The ultimate nature of things, or the way things are beyond all concepts and duality, as opposed to the way they appear to unawakened beings. (Provisional 84000 definition. New definition forthcoming.)
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathātva
- tathatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
A common term describing ultimate reality.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
Also translated here as “thusness.”
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The ultimate nature of things, or the way things are in reality, as opposed to the way they appear to non-enlightened beings.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
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 reality (dharmatā, chos nyid).
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The ultimate nature of things beyond all concepts.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The ultimate nature of things, or the way things are in reality, as opposed to the way they appear to unawakened beings.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- de kho na nyid
- tathatā
- tattvatā
The ultimate nature of things, or the way things are in reality, as opposed to the way they appear to nonenlightened beings.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
A synonym for emptiness, this term refers to the ultimate nature of things, the way things are in reality.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms.
- Suchness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathātva
- tathatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Also rendered here as tathatā and true reality, or simply reality.
- Tathatā
- དེ་བཤིན་ཉིད།
- de bshin nyid
- tathatā
The state in which things are; “thusness.”
- Tathatā
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
See “suchness.”
- Thusness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The ultimate nature of things, or the way things are in reality, as opposed to the way they appear to unawakened beings.
- Thusness
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
The quality or condition of things as they really are, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms.
- True nature
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathātva
Literally, “thusness,” as it is indescribable.
- True nature
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
- How things truly are
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathāta
- Real nature
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- tathatā
- True reality
- དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད།
- དེ་ཁོ་ན།
- ཡང་དག་པ།
- དེ་ཉིད།
- de bzhin nyid
- de kho na
- yang dag pa
- de nyid
- tathatā
See “suchness.”