十二真如

The twelve aspects of the bhūtatathhatā or the ultimate, which is also styled the 十二無為 "inactive" or nirvana-like: and the 十二空 "void" or immaterial:

(1) The chen ju itself;

(2) 法界 as the medium of all things;

(3) 法性 as the nature of all things;

(4) 不虛妄性 its reality contra the unreality of phenomena;

(5) 不變異性 its immutability contra mortality and phenomenal variation;

(6) 平等性 as universal or undifferentiated;

(7) 離生性 as immortal, i.e. apart from birth and death, or creation and destruction;

(8) 法定 as eternal, its nature ever sure;

(9) 法住 as the abode of all things;

(10) 實際 as the bounds of all reality;

(11) 虛空界 as the realm of space, the void, or immateriality;

(12)不思議界 as the realm beyond thought or expression.