Conditioned

Conditioned (Skt. saṁskṛta; Tib. འདུས་བྱས་, düché, Wyl. 'dus byas) means created through causes and conditions.

Definition

In the Entrance to the Way of the Wise, Mipham Rinpoche says:

A conditioned thing is a thing which is created through causes and conditions. Its nature has arising, remaining and ceasing. Its basis of definition is all phenomena subsumed by the five aggregates.

Alternative Translations

• Compounded
• Composite

Further Reading

• S. Goodman, "The Conditioned and Unconditioned" Chapter of Mi-pham rgya mtsho's mkhas-pa'i tshul-la 'jug-pa'i sgo, M.A Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 1979

Internal Links

• Unconditioned
• Formations
• Six types of cause
• Four types of condition