A form of physical phenomenon, asserted by the Vaibhashika, Sautrantika-Svatantrika and Prasangika Madhyamaka schools, that shows (reveals) the ethical status of the consciousness it accompanies, and which may be a constructive, destructive or unspecified phenomenon. Vaibhashika asserts them as the shape of one's body when performing an action and the sound of the words when one speaks. Madhyamaka asserts them as the movement or motion of the body as a method implemented for causing an action of the body to occur and the utterances of the speech as a method implemented for causing an action of the speech to occur.
Tibetan: རྣམ་པར་རིག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་གཟུགས། rnam-par rig-byed-kyi gzugs
Sanskrit: vijñaptirūpa
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