Property:Gloss-term
From Buddha-Nature
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mkhyen gnyis;Two kinds of knowledge;two kinds of knowledge;Knowledge of the nature of things (ji lta ba'i mkhyen pa) and knowledge of all things in their multiplicity (ji snyed pa'i mkhyen pa). +
'dul ba;Vinaya;One of the Three Pitakas;the section of the Buddha's teaching that deals with discipline, and in particular with the vows of monastic ordination. +
sde snod gsum;Three Pitakas;three pitakas;tripitaka;See Pitaka. +
dgra bcom pa;Arhat;Lit. "one who has vanquished the enemy" (the enemy being afflictive emotions): a practitioner of the Basic or Fundamental Vehicle who has attained the cessation of suffering, i.e., nirvana, but not the Perfect Buddhahood of the Great Vehicle. +
tshangs pa;Brahma;Lit. "pure": the name given to the principal god in the world of form. +
byis pa;Childish beings;childish beings;Ordinary, ignorant beings who lack wisdom and are thus trapped in samsara. +
Aggregates;aggregates;See Five aggregates. +
'od dpag med;Amitabha;The Buddha of Infinite Light. +
bsam gtan bzhi;Four concentrations;four concentrations;chaturdhyana;The karmic result of practicing these four concentrations without integrating them with the path of enlightenment is that the meditator is reborn in one of the twelve ordinary realms of the four concentrations, in the world of form (see chart on pp. 184-185). +
bcom ldan 'das;Bhagavan;An epithet of the Buddha, defined as he who has overcome (bcom) the four demons, who possesses (ldan) the six excellent qualities, and who does not dwell in either of the two extremes of samsara and nirvana but has gone beyond them ( 'das). +
'dzam bu gling;Jambudvipa;The southern continent according to Buddhist cosmology, the world in which we live. +
thub pa;Muni;See Capable One. +
'nges legs;Lasting happiness;lasting happiness;Lit. "certain good" or "ultimate excellence": the lasting happiness of liberation and omniscience (i.e., Buddhahood). +
de bzhin nyid;Thusness;thusness;Tathata;The absolute nature of things, emptiness, the absolute space free from elaboration. +
chos mngon pa;Abhidharma;One of the Three Pitakas;the branch of the Buddha's teachings that deals mainly with psychology and logic. +
bdag med gnyis;Two kinds of no-self;two kinds of no-self;The no-self of the individual (gang zag gi bdag med) and the no-self of phenomena (chos kyi bdag med). +
bslabs pa gsum;Three Trainings;three trainings;trishiksa;The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom. +
yi dvags;Preta;Also known as hungry ghost or spirit: a class of beings whose attachment and miserliness in previous lives result in constant hunger and the frustration of their desires. +
ngan song;Lower realms;lower realms;The hells, the preta realm, and the animal realm. +
gyal ba'i dbang po;Sovereign of the Conquerors;sovereign of the conquerors;An epithet of the Buddha, one who is victorious over the four demons. +
