Nirmita
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Nirmita (P. nimmita; T. sprul pa; C. hua; J. ke; K. hwa 化). Literally something that is "constructed" or "built".[1] In Buddhist texts, nirmita typically refers to something that is "conjured"[2], or something that is perceived as real, but is not actually existing.
Nirmita is translated into Tibetan as trulpa (sprul pa), which is defined in the Rangjung Yeshe Dharma Dictionary as "magical creation, emanation, [nirmita]; phantom; divinely emanated artisan; apparitional..."[3]
Nirmita is one of the eight similes of illusion, in which context it is often translated as "apparition."
See also
Notes
- ↑
Nirmita , Wisdom Library
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. nirmita
- ↑
sprul_pa, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
