zag bcas;tainted;tainted;Descriptive of actions or states in which the three concepts of subject, object, and action are present, and which are therefore tainted by defilements, so that they cannot lead to liberation from saṃsāra. +
nyan thos;listener;listener;śrāvaka;A follower of the Lesser Vehicle whose goal is to attain liberation for themselves as an arhat. The listeners are so called because they listen to the Buddha’s teaching and then teach it to others. +
’phags pa;noble being;noble being;ārya;Also called sublime being. An epithet applied, in the Great Vehicle, to someone who has attained the path of seeing, a bodhisattva on one of the ten bodhisattva levels. In the vehicles of the listeners andsolitary realizers, it is used to refer to stream enterers, once-returners, nonreturners, and arhats. +
mtshams med lnga;five crimes with immediate retribution;five crimes with immediate retribution;pañchanantariya;Also called five sins with immediate effect: (1) killing one’s father, (z) killing one’s mother, (3) killing an arhat, (4) creating a split in the Saṅgha, and (5) malevolently causing a buddha to bleed. Someone who has committed one of these five actions takes rebirth in the Hell of Torment Unsurpassed immediately after death, without going through the intermediate state between one rebirth and the next. +
rnam shes tshogs drug;six consciousnesses;six consciousnesses;lit. “six gatherings of consciousness” (signifying the gathering of a sense object, a sense organ, and a consciousness). The consciousnesses related to vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mentation. +
lhag bsam;superior intention;superior intention;Also called altruistic attitude. The good heart and unselfish attitude that is an essential aspect of a bodhisattva’s spiritual intent, bodhicitta. +
pha rol tu phyin pa;transcendent perfection;transcendent perfection;pāramitā;The principal practice of a bodhisattva, combining skillful means and wisdom, the compassionate motivation of attaining enlightenment for the sake of all being sand the view of emptiness. See six and ten transcendent perfections. +