Abstract
According to some authors, Trisvabhāvanirdesa is the last work authored by Vasubandhu (IV-th century AD), one of the founders of Vijnānavāda, the idealist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The text briefly depicts the tripartite ontology of the school. The doctrine of Vijnānavā da is based on the theory of the three own-beings (trisvabhāva), which ranks everything on three levels of reality : the absolute reality (parinispanna svabhāva – the fulfilled own-being), the non-delimited conditional flow (paratantra svabhāva – the interdependent own-being) and the level of categorically structured experience, specific to human beings (parikalpita svabhāva – the constructed own-being). Among these, the first two own-beings are real, while the third is unreal, being the object of religious and philosophical criticism.
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