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| Mind-Only Mind Only Consciousness Only mere mind Mere Mentalism sems tsam Cittamātra cittamātra | Cittamātra - Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna. Skt. चित्तमात्र Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་ | Key Terms/Cittamātra |
| CNRS cNRS | CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | CNRS |
| CSS cSS | CSS - Catuḥstavasamāsārtha | CSS |
| CŚT cŚT | CŚT - Bodhisattvayogācāracatuḥśatakaṭīkā | CŚT |
| dharmadhātu dharmadhatu Dharmadhātu | dharmadhātu - The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. Skt. धर्मधातु Tib. ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ Ch. 法界 | Key Terms/dharmadhātu |
| Dharma Body Truth Body dharmakāya Dharmakāya | dharmakāya - "Truth body" or "true being" — One of the three bodies of a buddha. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, it often refers to a kind of fundamental principle or the true nature of reality itself. Skt. धर्मकाय Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་ Ch. 法身 | Key Terms/dharmakāya |
| dharmatā Dharmatā | dharmatā - The true nature of phenomenal existence. Skt. धर्मता Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་ Ch. 法性 | Key Terms/dharmatā |
| DhDhS dhDhS | DhDhS - Dharmadhātustava | DhDhS |
| DhDhV dhDhV | DhDhV - Dharmadharmatāvibhāga | DhDhV |
| dhatu dhātu basic element Dhātu | dhātu - A fundamental component or essential constituent. Skt. धातु Tib. ཁམས་ Ch. 界 | Key Terms/dhātu |
| DIR dIR | DIR - Dhāraṇīśvararājasūtra | DIR |
| DNZ dNZ | DNZ - The Treasury of Precious Instructions Cataloging Project: Tsadra Foundation's Treasury of Precious Instructions cataloging project includes the full text of all eighteen volumes of the Shechen Publications edition of Jamgon Kongtrul's gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod. http://dnz.tsadra.org/ | DNZ |
| DohaPañj dohaPañj | DohaPañj - Dohakośapañjikā | DohaPañj |
| analytical meditation che gom dpyad sgom Dpyad sgom | dpyad sgom - Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence. Skt. विचारभावना Tib. དཔྱད་སྒོམ་ | Key Terms/dpyad sgom |
| DSBC dSBC | DSBC - Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon, a project of the University of the West http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/575/2687 | DSBC |
| dzogchen Great Perfection Dzogchen | Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན། | Key Terms/Dzogchen |
| EA eA | EA - Etudes Asiatiques | EA |
| single vehicle sole vehicle one vehicle ekayāna Ekayāna | ekayāna - The notion that ultimately there is only one vehicle, or means, of achieving enlightenment. Skt. एकयान Tib. ཐེག་པ་གཅིག་པ་ Ch. 一乘 | Key Terms/ekayāna |
| GCBS gCBS | GCBS - Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies | GCBS |
| Gelug Gelukpa Gelugpa Geluk geluk | Geluk - The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama. Tib. དགེ་ལུགས་ | Key Terms/Geluk |
| disposition rigs gotra Gotra | gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性 | Key Terms/gotra |
| Uma Chenpo Great Middle Way Great Madhyamaka great Madhyamaka | Great Madhyamaka - The term Great Madhyamaka is utilized in different contexts depending on the tradition. In the Jonang tradition, it generally refers to the Zhentong Madhyamaka philosophy as it was developed and systematized by Dölpopa. In this context, the Great Madhyamaka refers to the presentation of ultimate truth, while Madhyamaka describes the emptiness of the relative level of truth. In the Nyingma tradition, Great Madhyamaka refers to the subtle, inner Madhyamaka that unifies the philosophical positions of Nāgārjuna and Asaṅga. This is presented in opposition to the coarse, outer Madhyamaka that is the dialectic approach of Prāsaṅgika and Svātantrika. In the Kagyu tradition, the term is used in a similar vein in that Madhyamaka is used to refer to philosophical inquiry, while Great Madhyamaka is used to refer to the view arrived at through yogic accomplishment. However, in all of these traditions, Great Madhyamaka is heavily associated with buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) and the definitive status of these teachings. Skt. महामध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ཆེན་པོ་ | Key Terms/Great Madhyamaka |
| GRETL gRETL | GRETL - Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ | GRETL |
| enlightened qualities guṇa Guṇa | guṇa - The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being. Skt. गुण Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་ Ch. 功德 | Key Terms/guṇa |
| perfect qualities guṇapāramitā Guṇapāramitā | guṇapāramitā - In the Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra it is explained that the dharmakāya of a buddha possesses the four perfect qualities of purity, bliss, permanence, and self. Skt. गुणपारमिता Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ Ch. 功德波羅蜜 | Key Terms/guṇapāramitā |
| GV gV | GV - Gaṇḍavyūha | GV |
| shentong zhentong other-emptiness empty of other Zhentong Shentong gzhan stong Gzhan stong | gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་ | Key Terms/gzhan stong |
| ground of being gzhi Gzhi | gzhi - The foundational basis of both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. It is often used as a synonym for tathāgatagarbha and dharmadhātu. Tib. གཞི་ | Key Terms/gzhi |
| HJAS hJAS | HJAS - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies | HJAS |
| HL hL | HL - Himalayan Linguistics | HL |
| HR hR | HR - History of Religions | HR |
| HV hV | HV - Hevajra-tantra-rāja-nāma | HV |
| Hīnayāna Lesser Vehicle hīnayāna | Hīnayāna - The mainstream teachings and the early schools of Buddhism which primarily taught individual liberation through practice-focused renunciation and monasticism, considered lesser than the later movement of the Greater Vehicle (Mahāyāna), which professed enlightenment for all sentient beings and promoted compassion. Skt. हीनयान Tib. ཐེག་དམན། Ch. 小乘 | Key Terms/Hīnayāna |
| IA iA | IA - Indian Antiquary | IA |
| IAIC iAIC | IAIC - International Academy of Indian Culture | IAIC |
| IATS iATS | IATS - International Association for Tibetan Studies | IATS |
| IBK iBK | IBK - Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies | IBK |
| icchantika Icchantika | icchantika - Literally, "those with great desire," icchantikas could be rendered as hedonists or addicts. However, the term is generally used to refer to those who, due to their insatiable desire, are incapable of enlightenment. Skt. इच्छन्तिक Tib. འདོད་ཆེན་,འདོད་ཆེན་པོ་ Ch. 一闡提 | Key Terms/icchantika |
| IGI iGI | IGI - The Imperial Gazetteer of India | IGI |
| IHQ iHQ | IHQ - Indian Historical Quarterly | IHQ |
| ISCRL iSCRL | ISCRL - Indian Studies in Honor of Charles R. Lanman | ISCRL |
| IsMEO isMEO | IsMEO - Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente | IsMEO |
| JA jA | JA - Journal Asiatique | JA |
| JAAR jAAR | JAAR - Journal of the American Academy of Religion | JAAR |
| JAOS jAOS | JAOS - Journal of the American Oriental Society | JAOS |
| JASB jASB | JASB - Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal | JASB |
| JBTS jBTS | JBTS - Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India | JBTS |
| JIABS jIABS | JIABS - Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies | JIABS |
| JIBS jIBS | JIBS - Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies | JIBS |
| JIP jIP | JIP - Journal of Indian Philosophy | JIP |
