gter ma;གཏེར་མ་;treasure;treasure;In the Nyingma tradition (and occasionally in others), a special teaching that was “buried” in an earlier era then discovered centuries later by a treasurer revcalcr (''gter ston''). Treasures may be found in the earth, through pure visions, or in the mind of the revealer. Their status as “word of the Buddha ’ has been controversial at times, with some Gelukpas, in particular, questioning their validity. +
mya ngan las ’das pa;མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་;nirvaṇa;nirvana;nirvana;The most common term for the ''summum bonum'' of Buddhism. Nirvana is a state of transcendent peace in which all ''delusions'' have been uprooted, ''karma'' is no longer created, and rebirth need no longer be taken. In ''Mahayana'', nirvana sometimes is regarded as a mere way-station en route to full ''buddhahood'', but it may also be considered synonymous with a ''buddha's'' complete ''enlightenment''. +
sa skya gong ma lnga;ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་ལྔ་;five early Sakya manifestations;five early sakya manifestations;Sachen Künga Nyingpo, Sönam Tsemo, Drakpa Gyaltsen, Sakya Pandita, Phakpa. +
gzhi gnas;གཞི་གནས་;tranquil abiding;tranquil abiding;śamatha;One of two crucial attainments in Buddhist meditation, the other being ''superior insight''. Tranquil abiding is a state of effortless ''concentration'' upon an object of meditation accompanied by mental and physical ease, and is the doorway to the ''mental absorptions''. In most Buddhist path-systems, a practitioner must join tranquil abiding with superior insight to become an ''ārya'' being and assure the attainment of ''liberation'' or ''buddhahood''. +
lam 'bras;ལམ་འབྲས་;mārgaphala;Lamdré;lamdré;The “path-and-result” tradition of the Sakyapas, which is the definitive tantric transmission in that order. It is rooted in the Hevajra corpus and was introduced in Tibet in the eleventh century by Drokmi Lotsāwa on the basis of ''instructions'' from the Indian master Gayādhara and a root text composed by the great adept Virūpa. +
rnam bdun gyi dpyad pa;རྣམ་བདུན་གྱི་དཔྱད་པ་;sevenfold analysis;sevenfold analysis;In Madhyamaka, the investigation whether an entity exists as separate from its components, as identical to its components, possessing its components, inherently dependent upon its components, as the basis upon which the components depend, as the collection of components, or the shape of its components. +
rgya nag gi nang pa'i brgyud lnga;རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ནང་པའི་བརྒྱུད་ལྔ་;five lineages of Chinese Buddhism;five lineages of chinese buddhism;According Tibetan analyses: vinaya (Lu), secret mantra (CKenycn), extensive practice (''school of Xuanzang''), profound view (Tiantai and Huayan), and essential meaning (Chan). +
sngags;སྔགས་;mantra;In virtually all Indic traditions, a potent syllable or phrase, most often in Sanskrit, which may or may not have denotative meaning. In Buddhist ''tantra'', a mantra evokes the ''buddha''-deity with whom one identifies, and is uttered as the speech of that deity, with the power to affect and effect events in the mind and in the world. +
rtags yang dag gsum;རྟགས་ཡང་དག་གསུམ་;three aspects of a perfect logical reason;three aspects of a perfect logical reason;The reasons presence in the logical subject, pervasion by the predicate, and absence from all instances of the nonpredicate. +
sgrub pa bka' brgyad;སྒྲུབ་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱད་;eight transmitted precepts;eight transmitted precepts;In the triad lineage of Nyingma the five transworldly classes— of Manjuśrī/Yamāntaka;lotus/ Hayagrīva purity/Heruka nectar/Vajrāmṛta;and dagger/Vajrakīla— and the three worldly classes— sending invitations to the mother goddesses, reciting the destructive wrathful mantra, and praising and making offerings to worldly deities. +