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sa;ས་;Ground or stage;ground or stage;bhūmi;According to the Mahāyāna system, there are ten graduated ārya bodhisattva stages or '''bhūmis''', each corresponding to the attainment of one of the ten perfections, by which advanced trainees progress on the path to enlightenment. They are known as (1) Supreme Joy;(2) Stainless;(3) Luminous;(4) Radiant;(5) Difficult to Train in, (6) Directly Approaching all the Qualities of the Buddha, (7) Gone Far, (8) Immoveable;(9) Good Intelligence;and (10) Cloud of Discourses. +
mdo sde pa;མདོ་སྡེ་པ་;Sautrāntika;The higher of the two lower (Hinayāna) schools, whose name derives from the fact that its adherents follow the Hināyana sutras. +
chos dbyings;ཆོས་དབྱིངས་;dharmadhātu;Synonym of Buddha-nature. +
four Indian Buddhist schools;four indian buddhist schools;These are Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika, Cittamātra and Madhyamaka. They are differentiated largely by their differing definitions of the two realities. Vaibhāṣika asserts that the indivisible atom and the smallest fraction oftime are ultimate reality;Sautrāntika asserts that ‘functioning thing’ is ultimate reality and Cittamātra asserts that among functioning things, only mind exists absolutely. On the other hand, although the Mādhayamika school accepts phenomena at the relative level, it does not accept any existence whatsoever at the ultimate level. +
theg pa gsum;ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་;Three Vehicles;three vehicles;triyāna;These are: Śrāvakayāna, Pratyekabuddhayāna and Mahāyāna. +
bye brag smra ba;བྱེ་བྲག་སྨྲ་བ་;Vaibhāṣika;The lower ofthe two principal Hinayāna philosophical schools. +
bdud;བདུད་;māra;An evil influence or devil, which distracts practitioners +
Sāṃkhya;This is the non-Buddhist Hindu philosophical school which asserts that things are produced from themselves. +
zhi ba;ཞི་བ་;pacification;pacification;śānta,śānti;This refers to pacification of obscurations, a feature of analytical cessation or liberation. +
chos can;ཆོས་ཅན་;dharmin;In the context of philosophical debate, the dharmin is the basis of the argument or refutation. For example, in the establishing statement: “Vase is impermanent because it is compounded,” the dharmin or basis of argument is “vase.” +
bsgrub bya’i chos;བསྒྲུབ་བྱའི་ཆོས་;predicate;predicate;sādhya-dharma;In the establishing statement, the predicate is the special feature to be established on the dharmin or basis of argument. For example, when sound is established as impermanent, “impermanent” is the predicate. +
phung po;ཕུང་པོ་;skandha;This term gets translated as ‘aggregate,’ ‘heap’ or ‘bundle.’ It refers to the five groups of psychophysical functional phenomena, making up the entirety ofhuman experience. The five are forms, feelings, discriminating awareness, formative factors and consciousness. In particular, the selfofthe individual gets imputed on the basis of those five skandhas. Furthermore, skandhas are of two kinds: contaminated and uncontaminated. The first two noble truths are classified as contaminated skandhas and the fourth, the noble truth of path, subsumes the uncontaminated skandhas. +
khyab pa;ཁྱབ་པ་;pervasion;pervasion;vyāpti;For example, in the following establishing statement ‘It follows with respect to the subject, the colour of white religious conch, that it is a colour because of being white.’ The forward pervasion in this is: ‘whatever is white is necessarily colour.’ +
dngos med;དངོས་མེད་;Non-functional phenomena;non-functional phenomena;abhāva;Phenomena which do not perform a function, such as space. +
rigs;རིགས་;gotra;The term ''gotra'' refers to the spiritual propensity or affinity of an individual. According to the Madhyamaka school, the potential for enlightenment is present in all beings, but only active in those in whom the ''gotra'' has been awakened. According to Cittamātra there are five types ofbeings: (1-3) those having the ''gotra'' ofthe three vehicles (Śrāvakayāna, Pratyekabuddhayāna, and Mahāyāna), (4) those with an undetermined ''gotra'', and (5) those with a severed ''gotra''. +
rang rgyud kyi dam bca';རང་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དམ་བཅའ་;own proposition;own proposition;svātantra;A proposition advanced by one’s own side in debate. Unlike Prāsaṅgika debaters, Svātantrikas put forward a proposition of their own to establish non-inherent existence ofphenomena at the ultimate level. +
sa bon;ས་བོན་;seeds;seeds;Potential existing in the mind stream, which may become active +
dngo po;དངོ་པོ་;entity;entity;bhāva,vastu;An individual compounded phenomenon. +
spros pa;སྤྲོས་པ་;elaboration;elaboration;prapañca;Mental fabrication. +
de bzhin gshegs pa;དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་;Tathāgata;lit. “One thus gone” or “One gone to suchness” - an epithet of the complete Buddha. +
