yang dag pa'i mtha'

yang dag pa'i mtha'

A synonym for ultimate reality, emptiness, dharmadhātu, and so forth—as either an ontological reality or a state of being—this compound is typically parsed as the "limit" or "frontier" (koṭi) of "reality" (bhūta), which is intended metaphorically, as it is consistently described, in a play on words, as "without limit" (akoṭi) or "infinite" (atyanta). This compound might also be parsed as the "final" or "true" (bhūta) "conclusion" or "goal" (koṭi), although the majority of cases and the Indian Buddhist commentarial tradition tend to support the former interpretation.

A synonym for ultimate reality.

A synonym of the ultimate reality. In the Mahāyāna sūtras, it has a somewhat negative flavor, connoting the Hinayāna concept of a static nirvāṇa. Sthiramati glosses the term as follows: " 'Reality' means undistorted truth. 'Limit' means the extreme beyond which there is nothing to be known by anyone" (bhūtaṃ satyam aviparītamityarthaḥ / koṭiḥ paryanto yataḥ pareṇa-anyajjñeyaṃ nāsti…/).

The ultimate experience of reality, a close synonym of nirvāṇa.

The ultimate state that can be experienced in the realization of reality, and a near-synonym of nirvāṇa; sometimes also translated as "the reality limit" in contexts describing a partial nirvāṇa that needs to be transcended.

This term has three meanings: (1) a synonym for the ultimate nature, (2) the experience of the ultimate nature, and (3) the quiescent state of a worthy one (arhat) to be avoided by bodhisattvas.

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