Property:Gloss-def
From Buddha-Nature
This is a property of type Text.
T
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
The view whereby the five aggregates, which are transitory and composite, are regarded as a permanent, independent, and single “I” and “mine.” This view is the basis of all other wrong views. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
A pure land or world manifested by a buddha or great bodhisattva through the spontaneous qualities of their realization, in which beings can progress toward enlightenment without falling back in to the lower realms of cyclic existence. Also, any place whatsoever, when it is perceived as a pure manifestation of spontaneous wisdom. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Freedom from attachment, freedom from aversion, and freedom from bewilderment. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
see collection. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
The spontaneously luminous aspect of buddhahood, only perceptible to highly realized beings. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
A unit of time (of inconceivable length) used in Buddhist cosmology to describe the cycles of formation and destruction of a universe, and the ages of increase and decrease within them. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Discipline, concentration, wisdom, liberation, and the aggregate of seeing the gnosis of liberation. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Another name for the three natures. The imputed reality, the dependent reality, and the fully present reality. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
A member of the priestly caste in Indian society. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
A common epithet for a bodhisattva, with its plural (“the wise”) being used to denote bodhisattvas, and in some instances translated directly as such. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
See attentiveness. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
The followers of Nāgārjuna who adhere to the Madhyamaka, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Also called brilliant eloquence, confidence and eloquence. Bodhisattvas’ ability to speak from insight, realization, or the Buddha’s inspiration. It implies that they are never afraid of being unable to teach. See also power of retention. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Also called modesty, consideration of others. To be ashamed because of what others might think if one commits negative actions. This is one of the seven noble riches. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
lit. “firm, stable.” Used widely in the ''Sūtralāṃkāra'' as an epithet for a bodhisattva. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
The absence of true existence (in the sense of any permanent, independent, and single entity) in all phenomena. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Also called essence of buddhahood. The potential of buddhahood present in every sentient being. +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
Also called egolessness. The absence of independent or intrinsic existence, either of oneself (Tib. ''gang zag gi bdag med'') or of external phenomena (Tib. ''chos kyi bdag med''). +
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary +
A branch of the Great Vehicle that uses the special techniques of the tantras to pursue the path of enlightenment for all beings more rapidly. Because these practices are based on the realization of the diamond like nature of the mind, this vehicle is also known as the Diamond Vehicle. +
