Also translated as “individual” or “individual personality.”

The provisional designation of a “person,” which, depending on differing opinions, is associated with one or more of the five aggregates. While all Buddhist schools reject the view of an autonomous self (ātman), most use the conventional designation of the “person” as a provisional way to discuss the identity of individual beings. The Tibetan etymology of the term gang zag (“full with outflow”) refers to the understanding that the individual person is full of qualities and/or afflictions but also flowing out, that is, eventually succumbing to impermanence and death‍—in essence, not an awakened being.

Also translated as “person.”