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Three natures

The imagined, the dependent and the perfected: Yogācāra’s analysis of how experience exists.

Also: trisvabhava

Mahāyāna, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism

Yogācāra teaches three natures of things: the imagined nature, the false division of experience into subject and object; the dependent nature, the flow of experience arising from conditions; and the perfected nature, the dependent nature free of the imagined, which is suchness.