Tibetan Adjective
Rangtong
self-emptiness
རང་སྟོང་
Basic Meaning
The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.
Read It in the Scriptures
Since adventitious, relative entities do not exist at all in reality, they are empty of their own essences; they are self-empty. The innate ultimate, which is the ultimate emptiness of these relative things, is never non-existent; therefore, it is other-empty.~ Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, Collected Works ('Dzamthang ed., 1998), Vol. 6: 416. Translated by Douglas Duckworth in "Onto-theology and Emptiness: The Nature of Buddha-Nature." (2014), page 1075.
| Term Variations | |
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| Key Term | Rangtong |
| Topic Variation | Rangtong |
| Tibetan | རང་སྟོང་ ( rangtong) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rang stong ( rangtong) |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | self-emptiness |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | self-empty, self-emptiness |
| Richard Barron's English Term | unqualified emptiness |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | emptiness of self |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | intrinsic emptiness |
| Term Information | |
| Usage Example |
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| Source Language | Tibetan |
| Basic Meaning | The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena. |
| Related Terms | gzhan stong |
| Term Type | Adjective |
| Definitions | |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo | jo nang pa'i lugs kyi kun rdzob kyi cha nas chos thams cad rang ngos su bden pas stong pa'i lta ba'o |
