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དེ་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms
དེ་ཉིད།
de kho na nyid
tattva
- Term
- Tattva
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད།
- de kho na nyid
- tattva
The nature of things; their actual state; “thatness.”
- Tattva
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད།
- de kho na nyid
- tattva
Also rended here as “true reality.”
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Essential nature
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད།
- de kho na nyid
- tattva
The ultimate nature of things, the way things are in reality as opposed to the way they appear to beings who have not awakened.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Principle
- དེ་ཉིད།
- de nyid
- tattva
Literally “thatness”—in the general sense it is the true nature or reality of things; in a ritual sense (as, for example, “the principle of the bell”), it is the principle (in this case wisdom) that has become in the ritual the nature of the bell.
- Reality
- དེ་ཉིད།
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད།
- de nyid
- de kho na nyid
- tattva
Literally “thatness.” This term refers to the ultimate nature of things, the way things are in reality.
Note that the term “reality” has also been used to render terms of similar meaning such as yang dag nyid and others.
- Thatness
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད།
- de kho na nyid
- tattva
The nature of things or their actual state, which cannot be conveyed in conceptual, dualistic terms. Akin to other terms rendered here as suchness (tathatā, de bzhin nyid), true reality (bhūtatā, yang dag pa nyid), and reality (dharmatā, chos nyid).
- True reality
- དེ་ཁོ་ན།
- de kho na
- tattva