འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.22
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences notes.22
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22. Hakamaya (1977), p. 479, fn. 4. The trisvabhāva theory (mtshan nyid gsum) is a creation of the Yogācāra school used to address what it perceived to be insufficiency (and nihilism) of the two truths of the Madhyamaka school. The three natures are (1) parikalpitasvabhāva (kun brtags pa’i mtshan nyid), the “imagined” nature, that is our mistaken conception of phenomena; (2) paratantrasvabhāva (gzhan dbang gi mtshan nyid), or “relative” nature, which refers to the causal, interdependent nature that gives rise to that conceptuality; and (3) pariniṣpannasvabhāva (yongs grub pa’i mtshan nyid), or the “perfect” nature, which is the true, ultimate nature of phenomena.