མི་རྟག་པའི་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: mi rtag pa'i rang bzhin
<phrase> "Nature of impermanence" e.g., མི་རྟག་པའི་རང་བཞིན་ཅན་ "having a nature of impermanence". See also མི་རྟག་པ་ impermanence.
འདུས་མ་བྱས་པའི་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: 'dus ma byas pa'i rang bzhin
<phrase> "(Having) the nature of being uncompounded", "uncompounded in nature".
བསམ་པ་དང་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: bsam pa dang rang bzhin
<phrase> Equivalent of the English phrase a person's "thoughts and disposition".
རང་བཞིན་གྱི་བར་དོ་
Transliteration: rang bzhin gyi bar do
<phrase> "Nature bardo" one of the བར་དོ་རྣམ་བཞི་ four bardos q.v. Also called the རང་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་གནས་ཀྱི་བར་དོ་ and སྐྱེ་གནས་ཀྱི་བར་དོ་.
རང་བཞིན་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་
Transliteration: rang bzhin lhun grub
<phrase> "Nature's spontaneous accomplishment". Some gloss this as "spontaneously present nature" but that is incorrect because it implies that the nature itself is present in a spontaneous way; the meaning is that, within the རང་བཞིན་ nature aspect of the essence of mind, the qualities of the three kāyas are present in a ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ spontaneously accomplished way.
རང་བཞིན་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་
Transliteration: rang bzhin stong pa nyid
<noun> "Emptiness of nature". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "prakṛtiśhūnyatā". One of སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ཉི་ཤུ་ "the twenty emptinesses" q.v.
རང་བཞིན་ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་
Transliteration: rang bzhin lhan cig skyes
<phrase> "Natural co-emergence". According to the system of དུས་འཁོར་ Kālachakra, the name for the fact that sentient beings are by nature co-emergence.
གདོད་མའི་གནས་ལུགས་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: gdod ma'i gnas lugs rang bzhin
<phrase> "The primal actuality nature". Here, nature refers to the spontaneous existence aspect of primordial enlightenment as taught in Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen.
རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་པ་
Transliteration: rang bzhin gyis grub pa
<phrase> "Inherently established". When discussing the way in which a phenomena exists, several terms are used; this one is a key term in the Madhyamaka Prasaṅgika system. It means that something གྲུབ་པ་ comes into existence རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་ by way of a nature. In other words, any phenomenon that comes about in this way has a concrete identity to it, which is the meaning in this case of རང་བཞི…
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas kyi rang bzhin
<phrase> "Buddha-nature" another name of དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ tathāgatagarbha, the inner nature of the mind of sentient beings that is equivalent to and allows the beings to become a buddha.
རང་བཞིན་གསལ་བ་
Transliteration: rang bzhin gsal ba
<phrase> "The nature, illumination" or "the nature, luminosity". Specifically, in the Great Completion system and also sometimes in the Mahāmudrā system, a phrase used to indicate the འོད་གསལ་བ་ luminosity aspect of the སེམས་ཀྱི་ངོ་བོ་ essence of mind. The empty aspect is the ངོ་བོ་སྟོང་པ་ essence, emptiness.
རང་བཞིན་བར་དོ་
Transliteration: rang bzhin bar do
<phrase> "The nature bardo". The name given to the first of the four bardo in the སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་ sgra thal 'gyur tantra. In other places it is usually called the སྐྱེ་གནས་བར་དོ་ "birthplace bardo" for more. It refers to the bardo condition of any given life taken by a sentient being.
