Conditioned

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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. [1]

Alternative Translations

  • Compounded
  • Composite

Notes

  1. Tibetan: འདུས་བྱས་ནི་རྒྱུ་དང་རྐྱེན་ལས་སྐྱེས་པའི་ཆོས་གང་ཞིག རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་ལ་སྐྱེ་གནས་འགག་པ་གསུམ་ཡོད་པ་སྟེ་མཚན་གཞི་ཕུང་པོ་ལྔས་བསྡུས་པའི་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་དོ།

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

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