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mnyam gzbag;མཉམ་གཞག་;meditative equipoise;meditative equipoise;samāpatti;A highly concentrated state of mind in which one is focused effortlessly on a particular object of meditation. Like ''concentration'', meditative equipoise presupposes ''tranquil abiding'' and has a range of possible objects that are its focal point, including ''emptiness'' itself. +
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tshogs drug;ཚོགས་དྲུག་;six types of sensory equipment;six types of sensory equipment;Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
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rdo rje;རྡོ་རྗེ་;vajra;vajra;A fundamental term in Buddhist ''tantra'', indicating the indestructibility of the state of ''enlightenment''. In Hindu mythology, the vajra is the thunderbolt wielded by Indra； in a Buddhist context, it sometimes is translated as diamond” or “adamantine.” It also refers to a scepter-like ritual object utilized by tantric practioners. +
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'dzam gling gnas mchog nyi shu rtsa bzhi;འཛམ་གླིང་གནས་མཆོག་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བཞི་;twenty-four power places of Jambudvīpa;twenty-four power places of jambudvīpa;In the Yoginī tantras: Jālandhara, Uḍḍiyāna, Paurṅagiri, Kāmarūpa, Mālava, Sindhu, Nagara, Munmuni, Kārunyapātaka, Devīkota, Karmārapātaka, Kulatā, Arbuda, Godavari, Himādri, Harikela, Lampāka, Kañci, Sauraṣṭra, Kaliṅga, Kokaṇa, Caritra, Kośala, Vindhyākumārapaurikā. +
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mang bkur ba'i gyes pa gsum;མང་བཀུར་བའི་གྱེས་པ་གསུམ་;three Saṃmatīya sects;three saṃmatīya sects;Kurukullaka, Āvantika, and vātsīputrīya. +
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mngon rtogs brgyad;མངོན་རྟོགས་བརྒྱད་;eight higher realizations;eight higher realizations;s taught in the ''Ornament of Higher Realization'', by Maitreya: realization of all aspects, realization of the path, realization of everything, perfectly manifest realization of all aspects, reaching the summit of existence, final realization, instantaneous realization, and dharmakāya. +
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mkhas pa'i bya ba gsum;མཁས་པའི་བྱ་བ་གསུམ་;three activities of scholars;three activities of scholars;Teaching, debating, and writing or, more properly, composing. +
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chos sku'i dbye ba gsum;ཆོས་སྐུའི་དབྱེ་བ་གསུམ་;three divisions of the dharmakāya;three divisions of the dharmakāya;Gnostic dharmakāya and the two subdivisions of the natural body: natural emptiness and natural lack of any obstacles. +
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rig gnas che ba lnga;རིག་གནས་ཆེ་བ་ལྔ་;five major sciences;five major sciences;Linguistics, logic, medicine, arts and technology, and “inner meaning” (i.e., Buddhism). +
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phyag chen dbye ba gnyis;ཕྱག་ཆེན་དབྱེ་བ་གཉིས་;two divisions of Mahāmudrā;two divisions of mahāmudrā;The perfection-vehicle system and the mantra-vchicle system. +
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khor ba;ཁོར་བ་;saṃsāra;samsara;samsara;The general term for the worlds inhabited by sentient beings. It is marked by suffering, impermanence, and absence of self, and entails for those beings repeated rebirth in one or another unsatisfactory realm due to the force of ''delusions'' and ''karma''. +
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thar pa'i sgo gsum;ཐར་པའི་སྒོ་གསུམ་;three doors of liberation;three doors of liberation;Signlessness, wishlessness, and emptiness. +
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grub thob brgyad bcu rtsa bzhi;གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་བཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་;eighty-four great adepts;eighty-four great adepts;Aciṅta, Ajogi, Anaṅga, Āryadeva, Babhaha, Bhadrapa, Bhandepa, Bhiksanapa, Bhusuku (Śāntideva), Cāmāripa, Campaka, Carbaripa, Catrapa, Caurańgipa, Celukapa, Dārikapa, Ḍeńgipa, Dhahulipa, Dharmapa, Dhilipa, Dhobīpa, Dhokaripa, Ḍombipa, Dukhandhi, Ghaṇṭāpa, Gharbari, Godhuripa, Gorakhnāth, Indrabhūti, Jālandhara, Jayānanda, Jogipa, Kālapa, Kambala, Kamparipa, Kanakhalā, Kāṇhapa, Kaṅkaṇa, Kaṅkaripa, Kantalipa, Kapālapa (Àryadeva), Khadgapa, Kilakilapa, Kirapālapa, Kokilipa, Kotalipa, Kucipa, Kukkuripa, Kumbharipa, Lakṣmīṅkarā, Līlapa, Lucikapa, Lūipa, Mahipa, Maṇibhadrā, Medhini, Mekhalā, Mekopa, Mīnapa, Nāgabodhi, Nāgārjuna, Nalinapa, Nāropa, Nirguṇapa, Pacaripa, Pańkajapa, Putalipa, Rāhula, Ratnākaraśānti (Śāntipa), Samudra, Saraha, Saroruha, Sarvabhakṣa, Śavaripa, Śyalipa, Taṅtepa, Tantipa, Thaganapa, Tilopa, UdKilipa, Upanaha, Viṇāpa, Virūpa, Vyālipa. +
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brgyad ldan gyi man ngag;བརྒྱད་ལྡན་གྱི་མན་ངག་;eightfold special instruction;eightfold special instruction;In Geluk: Tsongkhapa's ''Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, Small Treatise on the Stages of the Path'', and ''Song of Experience Related to the Stages of the Path'';the Third Dalai Lama’s ''Essence of Refined Gold'' (a commentary on the preceding), the Fifth Dalai Lamas ''Sacred Words of Mañjuśrī'' (a commentary on the preceding), the First Panchen Lama Losang Chökyi Gyaltsens ''Path to Bliss'', the Third Panchen Palden Yeshé's ''Swift Path'' (a commentary on the preceding), and Dakpo Ngawang Drakpas ''Essence of Well-Spoken Advice''. +
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phar phyin theg pa;ཕར་ཕྱིན་ཐེག་པ་;perfection vehicle;perfection vehicle;pāramitāyāna;In later Indian and in Tibetan categorizations, one of two traditions within Mahayana, along with the ''secret-mantra vehicle''. The perfection vehicle (also called the ''sutra'' vehicle or the ''definition vehicle'') draws primarily from ''Mahayana'' sutras and their commentaries and focuses on the development of the six or ten perfections by a ''bodhisattva'' exclusive of tantric methods. +
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khrid chen brgyad;ཁྲིད་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་;eight great guidelines;eight great guidelines;In Kagyü: the guidelines on the lama as the three buddha bodies, the guidelines on love and compassion, the guidelines on cause and effect and dependent arising, the guidelines on the fivefold nectar drip, the guidelines on the yoga of the coemergent, the guidelines on the six Dharmas of Nāropa, the guidelines on equalizing the eight worldly dharmas, and the guidelines meditation to reverse ill fortune through secret conduct. +
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spong ba'i ’du byed brgyad;སྤོང་བའི་འདུ་བྱེད་བརྒྱད་;eight factors for abandoning obstacles;eight factors for abandoning obstacles;In tranquilabiding meditation faith, determination, perseverance, confidence (all of which counter laziness), mindfulness (which counters lack of mindfulness), introspection (which counters sinking and distraction), investigation (which counters further association with sinking and scattering), and equanimity (which counters unnecessary prolongation of countermeasures). +
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dul ba;དུལ་བ་;vinaya;vinaya;The branch of Buddhist discourse and the section of the Buddhist canon concerned with monastic discipline. In Tibetan tradition, the most influential vinaya text is the ''Vinaya Sutra'' of Vasumitra. +
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ltung bshags kyi sangs rgyas so lnga;ལྟུང་བཤགས་ཀྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་སོ་ལྔ་;thirty-five confession buddhas;thirty-five confession buddhas;Amoghadārśin, Anantaujas, Aśokaśrī, Bhadraṛṣi, Brahman, Brahmadatta, Brahmajyotis, Candanaśrī, Dhānaśri, Indraketudhvaj a, Kusumaśrī, Nageśvarāja, Nārāyaṇa, Padmajyotis, Pariklrtitanāmaśrī, Prabhāsari, Ratnacandra, Ratnacandraprabhā, Ratnāgni, Ratnārcis, Ratnapadma, Śailendrarāja, Samantavabhāsa, Śākyamuni, Smṛtiśrī, Suradatta, Suvikranta, Vajragarbha, Varuṇa, Varuṇadeva, Vikranta, Vimala, Virānanda, Virasena, Yuddhajaya. +
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mkha 'gro ma;མཁ་འགྲོ་མ་;ḍākinī;ḍākinī;In advanced tantric traditions, a female figure who assists a practitioner in deepening meditative realization. As with their male counterparts, ḍākas, there are both worldly and transmundane ḍākinīs. Ḍākinīs may manifest as embodied human beings or in subtler forms, and they may appear alluring or wrathful. In consonance with Buddhist gender symbolism, they signify ''gnosis'', or transcendental wisdom. +
