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The '''uncategorized absolute''' (Skt. ''aparyāyaparamārtha''; Tib. [[རྣམ་གྲངས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་དོན་དམ་]] [[Wyl.]] ''rnam grangs ma yin pa'i don dam'') is described as the actual [[absolute truth]], free from all [[conceptual elaboration]], such as 'existence', 'non-existence', 'arising', 'non-arising' and so on. It is connected with wisdom (''ye shes'') and the state of [[meditative absorption]].
The '''uncategorized absolute''' (Skt. ''aparyāyaparamārtha''; Tib. [[རྣམ་གྲངས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་དོན་དམ་]] [[Wyl.]] ''rnam grangs ma yin pa'i don dam'') is described as the actual [[absolute truth]], free from all [[conceptual elaboration]], such as 'existence', 'non-existence', 'arising', 'non-arising' and so on. It is connected with wisdom ([[ཡེ་ཤེས་]], ''ye shes'') and the state of [[meditative absorption]].


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Revision as of 02:51, 5 April 2011

The uncategorized absolute (Skt. aparyāyaparamārtha; Tib. རྣམ་གྲངས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་དོན་དམ་ Wyl. rnam grangs ma yin pa'i don dam) is described as the actual absolute truth, free from all conceptual elaboration, such as 'existence', 'non-existence', 'arising', 'non-arising' and so on. It is connected with wisdom (ཡེ་ཤེས་, ye shes) and the state of meditative absorption.

Alternative Translations

  • Absolute beyond conceptualization
  • Absolute qua undenotable (Kapstein)
  • Actual ultimate (PAD)
  • Nonconceptual ultimate (Pettit)

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