- de kho na nyid
- ID:
- T220729
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > de kho na nyid (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
David Higgins Lexicon of Tibetan Buddhist Topics and Terminology
- is related to
- spyod pa'i sgo bzhi/, yan lag bcu'i cho ga/
Passages
Passage
de nyid gsum mang (1) bdag gi de kho na nyid ni/ phung po lnga'i don blos rnam pr ma phye ba ni bdag ces bya la/ de'i kho na nyid ni/ gzung ba dang 'dzin par kun tu brtags pas stong pa/ sems dang sems las 'byung ba rang rig pa tsam mo/ med par skur pa' gdab du mi rung ba 'di ni bdag gi de kho na nyid do/ (2) lha'i de kha na nyid ni/ chos nyid dang sgra la sogs pa gsang sngags kyi dngos po' lha drug du grags pa rnams so/ de la bdag gi de kho na nyid gser gyi glegs ma lta bu la/ lha'i de kho na nyid rdul chu zhun ma lta bu bsgos te/ lha'i skur bsgom par bzhed do/ de yang de nyid gsum gzugs brnyan chen po gsum [ye shes/ ming/ gzugs/ phyag rgya/] dmigs pa gsum/ yan lag bzhi dang ldan pa'i brzas brjod ni (3) bzas brjod kyi de kho na nyid yin te/ de la (i) gzugs brnyan chen po gsum ni/ sku mtshan dang dpe byad du gsal ba ni sku'i gzugs brnyan/ de'i thugs kar byang chub kyi sems kyi rtags zla ba'i dkyil 'khor bsgom pa ni/ thugs kyi gzugs brnyan/ de la snying po bkod pa ni gsung gi gzugs brnyan no/ (ii) dmigs pa gsum ni/ bzas brjod kyi dus su ye shes pa' mdun du dmigs la/ gzugs brnyan gsum po de kun kyang dmigs par bya ba yin pas dmigs pa gsum zhes bya'o/ (iii) yan lag bzhi ni/ dmigs pa gsum po dang bdag dam tshig sems dpa' zlos pa po dang bzi car yang/ bzlos brjod kyi lan lag re re yin pas/ yan lag bzhi zhes bya'o/
Note
In this passage, Rong zom discusses three aspects of suchness or as-is-ness (de kho na nyid) that are distinctive features of Mantrayāna (bdag, lha and bzas).
by David Higgins
Passage
[yon tan rin po che mdzod kyi 'grel pa nyi zla'i sgron me:54.1] des na bdag nyid ltar bskyed pa'i tshul ni de kho na nyid bzhi'i sgo nas te/
de la dang po bdag gi de kho na nyid ni rgyud 'di'i lta ba'i ngang la 'jug pa ste/ de yang chos nyid dag pa'i lha zhes/ sems nyid don dam stong gsal gyi ye shes yod med snang stong gi mtha' bzhi dang bral ba'i chos nyid du rtogs nas kun rdzob kyi chos thams cad lhar bsgom na stong nyid yin pa'i gnas kyis lcags khams la gser 'gyur gyi rtsis thebs pa bzhin rten 'brel gyi snang cha thams cad mthar thug sangs rgyas pa'i tshe lhar yongs su dag par 'dod do/
gnyis pa lha'i de kho na nyid ni (6 fold)/ (stong pa'i lha, yi ge'i lha, sgra'i lha, gzugs kyi lha, phyag rgya'i lha, mtshan ma'i lha) ....
[yon tan rin po che mdzod kyi 'grel pa nyi zla'i sgron me:55.6] bzlos brjod kyi de kho na nyid...
[yon tan rin po che mdzod kyi 'grel pa nyi zla'i sgron me:56.1] bsam gtan gyi de kho na nyid...
Note
In this passage, the authors discuss the four de kho na nyid in the context of the four spyod pa'i sgo (see under spyod pa'i sgo bzhi) of Kriyāyoga Tantra (see under rgyud).
by David Higgins
Passage
ta ni ta t+tva ste de kho na nyid/ de nyid blta ba zhes pa de kno na nyid kyi don 'di kho na la lta bar bya'o/ gzhan bshad pas ci zhig bya ste/ de kho na nyid rtogs par mi 'gyur zhes zhes bya ba'i don to/
Note
In his Acrostic Dohā, Saraha glosses the term de kho na nyid.
by David Higgins
In this passage, 'Jigs med gling pa mentions the five de kho na nyid in the context of the four rkyen as they pertain to the four dbang: bdag gi de kho na nyid, lha'i de kho na nyid, gsang sngags de kho na nyid, bzlas brjod kyi de kho na nyid, and 'pho 'du'i de kho na nyid.
On the topic of dbang bskur, 'Jigs med gling pa quotes the 'Dus pa'i rgyud which specifies gsangs sngags kyi nges pa'i de kho na nyid as the gist of Tantra.
Other Dictionaries
1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary
Hopkins' Translations: [that-only-ness]; reality; suchness [i.e., emptiness]
Sanskrit: {MSA}tattva; {MSA}satya; tathatā
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2. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
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essential nature, nothing but thatness [thd]
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immanent reality; Syn དེ་ཉིད་
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1) thatness, reality, suchness, thusness, natural state, real nature, real, That, what actually is, the real thing, state of being just as it is. Syn tathata གནས་ལུགས་, སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་, དེ་ཉིད་, ཆོས་ཉིད་, ཡང་དག་པ་, དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་. can be abbreviated by དེ་ཉིད་ reality; Skt. tattva or tatva, thatness itself. 2) that very same, that itself
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3. Ives Waldo Dictionary
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the real, suchness, the way things are, [emptiness, thusness, the natural state, dharmata, dharmadhatu, That, that very same, thatness, reality, reality, what actually is, the real thing (it does not always mean the absolute truth, it can also be relative. There is conventional suchness and absolute suchness it can be abbreviated by དེ་ཉིད་
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1) not mixed w other; 2) the ultimate way things are, emptiness; 3) that itself, only that
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the real, suchness, the way things are,
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4. Jim Valby Dictionary
absolute suchness, ultimate, ultimately real essence, nature, immanent reality, that alone, just that, just such, fundamental nature, tathata, the state of being just as it is, suchness, essential condition, characteristic condition, thatness, fundamental nature
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6. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo
[1280] 1༽ གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲེས་པ། ... 2༽ སྟོང་ཉིད་དེ་གནས་ལུགས་མཐར་ཐུག་...
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7. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary
(１) གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲེས་པ། (２) སྟོང་ཉིད་དེ་གནས་ལུགས་མཐར་ཐུག
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8. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo
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1.གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲེས་པ།
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2.སྟོང་ཉིད་དེ་གནས་ལུགས་མཐར་ཐུག
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9. Mahāvyutpatti: Sanskrit-Tibetan-English Vocabulary
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- tattvam
10. Negi Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary
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pā. tattvam — དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་རྟག་ཏུ་གཉིས་དང་བྲལ་བ satataṃ dvayena rahitaṃ tattvam sū.bhā.168ka/59; དང་པོ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཤེས་པའི་ཕྱིར ādito duḥkhādidharmatattvajñānāt abhi.sphu.175kha/924; tathatā — དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ནི་དམ་པའི་དོན་ཅན་ཚིག་ཏུ་བརྗོད་པ་སྤངས་པའོ༎ tathatā pāramārthikaṃ vāgudāhāravarjitam vi.pra.154kha/1.3; satyam — རྟོག་གེ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་མ་མཐོང་བ་ལ་བརྟེན་པ་ནི་ལུང་ཅུང་ཟད་ལ་བརྟེན་པ་ཡིན་ནོ༎ adṛṣṭasatyāśrayo hi tarkaḥ kaścidāgamaniśrito bhavati sū.bhā.132ka/5; dra. དེ་ཁོ་ན།
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vi. tāttvikam, okī — གཞན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་དོ༎ paramiti tāttvikam ta.pa.188kha/94; འགལ་བ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ་སྙམ་དུ་དགོངས་པ་ཡིན་ནོ༎ na tu virodhastāttvika iti bhāvaḥ ta.pa.241ka/196; དེ་ནི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་དུ་གཅིག་ཏུ་ཡོད་པ་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ༎ na tvekā tāttvikī sā'sti ta.pa.164kha/49.
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de kho na nyid has 2 other terms directly related to it, which are presented here.