ཀ་དག་

JH-ENG

[beginning-pure]; essential purity; pure from the beginning; pure from ka, the first letter of the alphabet

OT

[3] 1) སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་། ... 

2) ka nas dag pa ste thog ma nyid nas dri ma med pa/ ...

JH-C

Comment: In the Great Completeness (rdzogs chen) in N#ying-ma, essential purity (ka dag) is paired with breakthrough (khregs chod; literally, "breaking through the hard") while spontaneity (lhun grub) is paired with leap-over (thod rgal) in ka dag khregs chod lhun grub thod rgal.

DM

[= ka nas dag pa] Pure from the letter 'A'. Abbr. of ka nas dag pa, pure from [the letter] 'ka'. 'Ka' is the first letter of the Tibetan alphabet. This is a term from the Old Translations, and we no longer know the Sanskrit equivalent. Acc. to 208 I 309.4, the Skt. is khazuddha (sky-like pure??). Stein. Often translated 'primordial purity.' Germano, Poetic Thought 914. rtsa ba nas dag pa'am chos kyi dbyings stong pa nyid kyi don du gsungs. Chödag. Btsan-lha. Discussion by Klein in Karmay, New Horizons 220 n. 100.

JV, IW, RB, RY

original purity

JV

pure from the beginning, initially pure, transcendence, purely transcendent, primordially pure, primordial purity, *, inherent purity, *, *, primordially empty

IW

1) stong pa nyid emptiness - 

2) primordial/ alpha /*, [in cutting through resistance, pure from the beginning, without reference to pure and impure; 

3) formerly; 

4) first, primary)/; 

5) clean, pure

RY

primordial purity [thd]. primordial purity, primordially pure; *; originally pure, pure from the beginning / first. Primordial purity. The basic nature of sentient beings which is originally untainted by defilement and beyond confusion and liberation