1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary

བརྗོད་རྗོད་བརྗོད་རྗོད་
Hopkins' Translations: verbal conventionalities; expressional conventionality

Comment: This is one of three divisions of conventionalities: (1) imputational conventionalities (btags pa'i kun rdzob); (2) mental conventionalities (shes pa'i kun rdzob); (3) verbal conventionalities (brjod pa'i kun rdzob). Jik-may-dam-chö-gya-tso also identifies imputational conventionalities as imputational natures that are imputed by conceptuality to be truly existent whereas they are not truly existent; mental conventionalities as other-powered natures, which are illustrated by unreal ideation (yang dag pa ma yin pa'i kun rtog) since it is the principal other-powered nature, and thus come to be called mental; verbal conventionalities as thoroughly established natures which, although they ultimately cannot be taken as objects by way of terms and conceptual consciousnesses, are suitable to be expressed through many verbal forms such as thusness and so forth.

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