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Key Terms/Saṃcayagāthā + (Saṃcayagāthā - Prajñāpāramitāratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā)
Key Terms/SuvPra + (SuvPra - Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra)
Key Terms/TGS + (TGS - Tathāgatagarbhasūtra)
Key Terms/TJ + (TJ - Tarkajvālā)
Key Terms/TR + (TR - Tibetan Review)
Key Terms/TSP + (TSP - Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā)
Key Terms/TTJ + (TTJ - The Tibet Journal)
Key Terms/Taishō + (Taishō - Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, Chinese Tripiṭaka)
Texts/Dasheng qixin lun + (The ''Awakening of Faith'' is a key source text for buddha-nature theory in East Asian Buddhism.)
Texts/Dbu ma la 'jug pa'i rnam bshad dpal ldan dus gsum mkhyen pa'i zhal lung dwags brgyud grub pa'i shing rta + (The Eighth Karmapa's commentary on Candrakīrti's ''Madhyamakāvatāra'' (''Entry into the Middle Way''), presented as the oral instructions of the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa.)
Texts/De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos + (The Third Karmapa's treatise on buddha-nature written in verse.)
Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra + (These are the root verses of the ''Uttaratantra'' attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.)
Texts/'da' ka ye shes kyi 'chi kha ma'i man ngag + (This brief text contains the instructions on attaining Mahāmudrā in the intermediate state based on the ''Atyayajñānasūtra''.)
Key Terms/Triṃś + (Triṃś - Triṃśikā)
Key Terms/Tsen Tradition + (Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the ''Uttaratantra''; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་)
Key Terms/UPS + (UPS - Ugraparipṛcchāsūtra)
Key Terms/Uttaratantra + (Uttaratantra - The ''Ultimate Continuum'', … Uttaratantra - The ''Ultimate Continuum'', or ''Gyü Lama'', is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'' of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the ''Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra''. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論 Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論)
Key Terms/VN + (VN - Vimalakīrtinirdeśa)
Key Terms/VV + (VV - Vigrahavyāvartanī)
Key Terms/Vajrayāna + (Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist traditio … Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt. वज्रयान Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ། Ch. 金剛乘. Skt. वज्रयान Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ། Ch. 金剛乘)
Key Terms/WSTB + (WSTB - Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde - Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien.)
Key Terms/WZKM + (WZKM - Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes)
Key Terms/WZKS + (WZKS - Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens)
Key Terms/WZKSOA + (WZKSOA - Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd-und Ostasiens)
Key Terms/Yogācāra + (Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was o … Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the ''Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra'' and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派)

Key Terms/ZAS + (ZAS - Zentralasiatische Studien)

Key Terms/ZDMG + (ZDMG - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesselschaft)
Key Terms/abhidharma + (abhidharma - Abhidharma generally refers t … abhidharma - Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The abhidharma teachings present a meta-knowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha. Skt. अभिधर्म Tib. ཆོས་མངོན་པ། Ch. 阿毗达磨ha. Skt. अभिधर्म Tib. ཆོས་མངོན་པ། Ch. 阿毗达磨)
Key Terms/actualized enlightenment + (actualized enlightenment - Actualized enli … actualized enlightenment - Actualized enlightenment is enlightenment that is attained through practice. It is contrasted with original enlightenment, which is the mind's innate purity in its natural state. Ultimately, there is no difference between them. Because of the presence of ignorance, sentient beings are blind to their true nature. By removing that ignorance, one actualizes enlightenment. Ch. 始覺ce, one actualizes enlightenment. Ch. 始覺)
Key Terms/advaya + (advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt. अद्वय Tib. གཉིས་མེད་ Ch. 不二)
Key Terms/amalavijñāna + (amalavijñāna - The ninth consciousness, the immaculate pure mind. Ch. 啊摩羅識,無垢識)
Key Terms/anātman + (anātman - The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity. Skt. अनात्मन् Tib. བདག་མེད་པ་ Ch. 无我)
Key Terms/arhat + (arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa b … arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again. Skt. अर्हत् Tib. དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། Ch. 阿羅漢gain. Skt. अर्हत् Tib. དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། Ch. 阿羅漢)
Key Terms/avidyā + (avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers … avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明)
Key Terms/bhūmi + (bhūmi - A plateau of spiritual development. Skt. भूमि Tib. ས་)
Key Terms/bodhi + (bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tib … bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (''byang'') and "perfected" (''chub''), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt. बोधि Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ Ch. 菩提,悟,覺buddha. Skt. बोधि Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ Ch. 菩提,悟,覺)
Key Terms/bodhicitta + (bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to see … bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt. बोधिचित्त Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། Ch. 菩提心 Skt. बोधिचित्त Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། Ch. 菩提心)
Key Terms/bodhigarbha + (bodhigarbha - An alternative term for tath … bodhigarbha - An alternative term for tathāgatagarbha found in early Nyingma sources. Though it is back-translated as ''bodhigarbha'', this term does not seem to be found in Sanskrit sources. However, in other contexts, the Tibetan ''byang chub snying po'' is often used to translate the Sanskrit term ''bodhimaṇḍa'', which is often translated as the "seat of enlightenment." Skt. बोधिगर्भ Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོ་ment." Skt. बोधिगर्भ Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོ་)
Key Terms/buddhadhātu + (buddhadhātu - A synonym for tathāgatagarbha widely used throughout the East Asian Buddhist traditions, as found in its translations as the Chinese term ''fó xìng'' and Japanese term ''busshō''. Skt. बुद्धधातु Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ Ch. 佛性)
Key Terms/byams chos sde lnga + (byams chos sde lnga - This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita. Tib. བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་)
Key Terms/bīja + (bīja - A seed, commonly used figuratively in the sense of something which has the potential to develop or grow, and likewise as the basic cause for this development or growth. Skt. बीज Tib. ས་བོན་ Ch. 無漏種)
Key Terms/dharmadhātu + (dharmadhātu - The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. Skt. धर्मधातु Tib. ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ Ch. 法界)
Key Terms/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/dharmatā + (dharmatā - The true nature of phenomenal existence. Skt. धर्मता Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་ Ch. 法性)
Key Terms/dhātu + (dhātu - A fundamental component or essential constituent. Skt. धातु Tib. ཁམས་ Ch. 界)
Key Terms/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/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/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/guṇa + (guṇa - The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being. Skt. गुण Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་ Ch. 功德)
Key Terms/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/gzhan stong + (gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of … 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་ empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་)