Property:Gloss-term
From Buddha-Nature
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kung zhi rnam shes;universal ground consciousness;universal ground consciousness;ālayavijñāna;A fundamental consciousness that serves as the repository of karma (actions) and latent potentials that manifest as embodied experience of a lifeworld. +
byang chub sems dpa;bodhisattva f;One who is intent on becoming a buddha for the benefit of others. +
rdzogs chen;Great Perfection;great perfection;A textual and meditative tradition, central to the Nyingma school, that embodies the most direct path to awakening;it is the culmination of all philosophies and paths. The tradition affirms that the fundamental qualities of a buddha are always already present and that no contrived effort is necessary to produce this fundamental reality anew. +
rong zom chos bzang;Rongzom;rongzom;ca. eleventh century, Important figure in the Nyingma tradition who, along with Longchenpa, was one of Mipams main influences. Sakyamuni: The historical Buddha. +
dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan;Dolpopa;dolpopa;Forefather of the Jonang school, renowned for his unapologetic affirmation of other-emptiness. +
zhi ba mtsho;Śāntarakṣita;Important synthesizer of the Yogic Practice School and the Middle Way. +
sems;mind;mind;citta;As opposed to awareness (Tib. ''rig pa''), ordinary conceptual consciousness. +
mya ngan las 'das pa;nirvana;Liberation from suffering. +
theg dman;Lesser Vehicle;lesser vehicle;hīnayāna;A path to enlightenment that emphasizes the renunciation of samsara in the quest for personal liberation. This tradition does not accept the Great Vehicle scriptures (i.e., the middle and last wheels of Dharma) as the word of the Buddha. +
bde gshegs snying po;buddha-nature;buddha-nature;tathāgatagarbha;The fundamental qualities of a buddha and the genuine meaning of emptiness, which is the unity of awareness and emptiness. +
dag gzigs;pure vision;pure vision;An undistorted perspective of reality, which is the content of a sublime being s wisdom in postmeditation. +
rang stong;self-emptiness;self-emptiness;According to Mipam, the Middle Way claim that nothing ultimately exists. +
thal 'gyur pa;Consequence School;consequence school;prasaṅgika;School of interpretation of the Middle Way that uses language in accordance with the uncategorized ultimate—reality free from constructs as experienced in a sublime beings meditative equipoise. In this school, the two truths are not held as separate when ascertaining the nature of reality. +
byang chub kyi sems;bodhicitta;Literally, "the mind of awakening";the wish to become a buddha for the benefit of others. +
rnying ma;Nyingma;nyingma;The "old school" of translations of Buddhist texts into Tibet that traces its heritage to the eighth century, as opposed to the new schools (Sarma) that developed from the eleventh century onward. +
rnal 'byor spyod pa'i dbu ma;Yogic Practice School of the Middle Way;yogic practice school of the middle way;yogācāramadhyamaka;A school of the Middle Way that adopts a Middle Way view of ultimate truth and asserts the conventional truth as the Mind-Only School does. +
rang rgyud pa;Autonomy School;autonomy school;svātantrika;School of interpretation of the Middle Way that emphasizes the categorized ultimate;divides the two truths;and asserts that while nothing ultimately exists, things exist relatively. +
rgyud gsang ba'i snying po;Secret Essence Tantra;secret essence tantra;guhyagarbhatantra;The most important tantra in the Nyingma school, +
rang rig;reflexive awareness;reflexive awareness;svasaṃvedanā;Awareness s intrinsic feature of being aware of its own knowing (self-aware) as it knows an object. +
sangs rgyas;buddha;The complete absence of obscuration and the complete actualization of wisdom. +
