Dngos po
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dngos po (T. dngos po དངོས་པོ་) is translated as "entity," "real thing," "functional thing," "thing," etc.
In the pramana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, dngos po is defined as "that which is able to perform a function."[1]
Functional things can be divided into three categories:[1][2]
- matter (rupa)
- consciousness (vijnana)
- non-concurrent formations
In the pramana tradition, this term is contrasted with dgnos med (དངོས་མེད་), or non-entity, which is "that which lacks the ablity to perform a function." Something that is not real.
Equivalent Sanskrit terms can be bhava or vastu.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
དངོས་པོ་ (Hopkins, 2015), Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Mipham Rinpoche 2004, s.v. line 3.15.
- ↑ See McNamara (2019), Nihilists and Noble Ones, Phd disseration, footnote 256
Sources
Mipham Rinpoche (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications
External links
- དངོས་པོ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
dngos_po, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki- dngos_med, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
- Sanskrit dictionary, "vastu"
