Paratantra

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Paratantra is a term used in the Yogācāra school for one of the aspects of the manifested cosmos. Mme. Blavatsky defined it as "That which has no existence of, or by itself, but only through a dependent or causal connection."[1]

For more information see Threefold nature.

Notes

  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 250.