Property:Gloss-term
From Buddha-Nature
This is a property of type Text.
T
rgyan drug;Six Ornaments;six ornaments;The six great commentators on the Buddha's teachings: Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Asanga, Vasubandhu, Dignaga, and Dharmakirti. +
'phags pa;Arya;A sublime being;in the Great Vehicle, a Bodhisattva on one of the ten Bodhisattva levels. +
Four samadhis';four samadhis';See Four concentrations. +
thub pa;Capable One;capable one;Muni;An epithet of the Buddha Shakyamuni, often translated as "Mighty One." He was called capable because, when he was a Bodhisattva and there was no one who had the courage to tame the most unfortunate beings with extremely gross views, afflictive emotions, and actions, he, our kind Teacher, was the only one, of all the 1,002 Buddhas of this Excellent Kalpa, who had the strength or capacity to vow to benefit them. +
'mu stegs pa;Tirthika;A proponent of extreme philosophical views such as nihilism and eternalism. This term is often used to imply non-Buddhist religious traditions in India. +
phung po lnga;Five aggregates;five aggregates;pañchaskandha;The five psychophysical components into which a person can be analyzed and which together produce the illusion of a self. They are form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors, and consciousness. +
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). +
theg pa gsum;Three vehicles;three vehicles;triyana;The vehicles of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas. +
sde snod;Pitaka;Lit. "basket": a collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha's teachings are generally divided into three pitakas: Vinaya, Sutra, and Abhidharma. +
zag bcas;Tainted;tainted;Lit. "possessing the cause of downfall (zag pa)": tainted by afflictive emotions, or by concepts of subject, object, and action. +
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). +
bde bar gshegs pa;Sugata;Lit. "one who has gone to bliss": an epithet of a Buddha. +
brgya byin;Indra;The ruler of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. +
nye bar len pa'i phung po lnga;Five causal aggregates;five causal aggregates;The five "tainted" aggregates produced by afflictive emotions and actions in a previous life and which will again produce further afflictive emotions and actions. +
dbang po drug;Six sense organs;six sense organs;sadindriya;The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
'khor ba;Samsara;Lit. "wheel," and therefore also translated as "cyclic existence": the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as a result of their actions and afflictive emotions. +
rang sangs rgyas;Pratyekabuddha;A follower of the Basic Vehicle who attains liberation (the cessation of suffering) without the help of a spiritual teacher. +
nyon mongs pa;Afflictive emotions;afflictive emotions;klesha;Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering. The five principal afflictive emotions are attachment, aversion or hatred, bewilderment or ignorance, jealousy, and pride. +
bden bzhi rnam pa bcu drug;Sixteen subdivisions of the Four Noble Truths;sixteen subdivisions of the four noble truths;The four aspects of the truth of suffering—impermanent, unsatisfactory, empty, and not the self;those of the truth of origination—source, cause, intensely producing, and condition;those of the truth of cessation—cessation, pacification, goodness, and definitive;and those of the truth of the path—path, pertinent, effective, and conducive to release. (See Treasury of Precious Qualities, Appendix 3.) +
Klesha;The Sanskrit term for afflictive emotions. +
