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tilakkhaṇa {pi}


Pāḷi; √ ti + lakkhaṇa
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alt. sp.: IPA: t̪ɪləkkʰəɳə, Velthuis: tilakkha.na, readable: tilakkhana, simple: tilakkhana
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khmer: តិលក្ខណ
thai: ติลกฺขณ
sinhal.: තිලක්ඛණ
burm.: တိလက္ခဏ
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[dic] tilakkhaṇa (tilakkhana)

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ATI Glossary

ti-lakkhaṇa: Three characteristics inherent in all conditioned phenomena — being inconstant, stressful, and not-self.

 

Buddhist Dictionary

by late Ven. Nyanalokita Thera:

ti-lakkhaṇa: the '3 charactcristies of existence', or signata, are impermanency (see anicca), suffcring or misery (see dukkha; see sacca, dukkhatā), not-self (see anattā).

“Whether Perfect Ones appear in the world, or whether Perfect Ones do not appear in the world, it still remains a firm condition, an immutable fact and fixed law: that all formations are impermanent, that all formations are subject to suffering, that everything is without a self” AN 3.134

“What do you think, o monks: Is corporeality (rūpa) permanent or impermanent? - Impermanent, o Venerable One. - Are feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā), mental formations (saṅkhāra) and consciousness (viññāṇa), permanent or impermanent? - Impermanent, o Venerable One.

“But that which is impermanent, is it something pleasant or painful? - It is painful, o Venerable One.

“But, of what is impermanent, painful and subject to change, could it be rightly said, 'This belongs to me, this am I, this is my ego'? - No, Venerable One.

”'I'herefore, whatever there is of corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness, whether past, present or future, one's own or external, gross or subtle, lofty or low, far or near, of all these things one should understand, according to reality and true wisdom: 'This does not belong to me, this am I not, this is not my ego' ” SN 22.59

“In one who understands eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and all the remaining formations as impermanent, painful and not-self, in him the fetters (see saṁyojana) are dissolved” SN 35.53

It is the full comprehension of the 3 characteristics by direct meditative experience which constitutes liberating insight. About their relation to the three gateways ot liberation', see vimokkha I. For further details, see anicca, dukkha, anattā, vipassanā.

Literature: The Three Signata, by Prof. O. H. de A. Wijesekera (Wheel 20). - The Three Basic Facts of Existence: I-III (Wheel BPS), Visuddhi Magga XX, 13ff. 18ff; XXI, 47f, 67f.

 

PTS Dictionary

by the Pali Text Society:

 

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Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms

by Ven. Varado Maha Thera:

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Glossary various Teacher

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See also

Suttas and Dhammadesanā

Ti-lakkhaṇa: (the three characteristics of existence). See also vipassanā (insight).

 

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