Parikalpita

Parikalpita (T. kun btags/kun brtags ཀུན་བཏགས/ཀུན་བརྟགས་; C. bianji suozhi xing 遍計所執性) is translated as “imputed,” “imaginary,” "artificial," etc. This term is contrasted with sahaja (innate, co-emergent).

The Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terms states:

Parikalpita. Conceptual imputation; intellectual imputation; artificial labelling or imputation. Misconception of the true nature of phenomena developed through reasoning rooted in philosophical and intellectual study or training.

Parikalpita is identified in the following contexts:

• parikalpitakleśāvaraṇa - imputed afflictive obstructions (kleśāvaraṇa)
• parikalpitātmagraha - imputed self-grasping (ātmagrāha)
• parikalpitāvidyā - imputed ignorance (avidyā)
• parikalpita-svabhāva (T. kun brtags mtshan nyid) - “imaginary nature”; one of the three natures (trisvabhāva) of the Yogācāra school

Related terms

Related Tibetan terms:

• kun tu rtog pa ཀུན་ཏུ་རྟོག་པ་ - mental construction, conceptualization
• kun rtog ཀུན་རྟོག་ - to conceptualize

External links

• kun_btags, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• kun_brtags, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• kun_tu_rtog_pa, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• ཀུན་བརྟགས་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
• ཀུན་ཏུ་རྟོག་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
• Imputed nature, Rigpa Shedra Wiki