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chud mi za ba’i rdzas;ཆུད་མི་ཟ་བའི་རྫས་;non-dissipating substance;non-dissipating substance;According to the Vaibhāṣika school, after a deed has been committed by a sentient being, it produces an inexhaustible entity which acts as the link between karma and result. +
mdo;མདོ་;Sūtra;The direct teachings of the Buddha are known as sutras. +
gang zag gi bdag;གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་;self of the individual;self of the individual;pudgalātman;Object of mode ofapprehending ofthe concept which conceives mere self as inherently existing ‘self or individual. +
rang gi ngo pos stong pa nyid;རང་གི་ངོ་པོས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་;emptiness,devoid of self-nature;emptiness,devoid of self-nature;svabhāvaśūnyatā;Definition of emptiness according to other (non Gzhan stong) Tibetan schools. The short form of this term is rang stong (self-emptiness). +
grub mtha’ ‘og ma;གྲུབ་མཐའ་འོག་མ་;lower schools;lower schools;With respect to the four Indian schools, the Madhyamaka school regards itself as the highest. From this perspective, the two Hinayāna schools (Vaibhāṣika and Sautrāntika) and the Mahāyāna Cittamātra school are known as the ‘lower schools.’ +
Brahmā;Greatly powerful Hindu deity who resides in the form-realm. +
gang zag gi bdag ‘dzin;གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་འཛིན་;apprehending/apprehension of a self of the individual;apprehending/apprehension of a self of the individual;Conceptual thought conceiving a self or an ‘I’ which has been imputed upon the ''skandhas'' as truly existent. +
basis of refutation;basis of refutation;dharmin +
ma brtags gcig pur nyams dga’ ba nyid;མ་བརྟགས་གཅིག་པུར་ཉམས་དགའ་བ་ཉིད་;Satisfactory as long as it is not examined;satisfactory as long as it is not examined;This expression refers to the level of conventional reality, where things function in terms of cause and result. When these appearances are analysed by means of logical reasoning investigating the ultimate nature of things, they fall apart and are thus no longer ‘satisfactory’. +
nga tsam;ང་ཙམ་;mere 'I';mere 'i';aham,ātman;The 'I' which is superimposed on the aggregates, as opposed to the ‘permanent I' imputed mainly by Hindu schools. +
nyon mongs pa’i sgrib pa;ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་;afflictive obscuration;afflictive obscuration;kleśāvaraṇa;This is the term given to afflictive emotions and their seeds, which obscure sentient beings from attaining liberation +
sems tsam pa;སེམས་ཙམ་པ་;Cittamātrin;A proponent of the Cittamātra view. Even though this term is not attested in Indian literature, we use it as a convenient convention instead of the lengthy ‘proponent of the Cittamātra view.’ +
bsgrub bya,dam bca’;བསྒྲུབ་བྱ་ དམ་བཅའ་;proposition;proposition;sādhya;Refers to the proposition, which is the composite ofthe basis of argument (''dharmin'') and the predicate. +
byang chub gsum;བྱང་ཆུབ་གསུམ་;three enlightenments;three enlightenments;Śrāvaka arhatship, pratyekabuddhahood and the complete and perfect buddhahood of the Mahāyāna. +
theg pa chen po;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་;Mahāyāna;In terms of the doctrine and tenets, this refers to the teachings of the ‘higher vehicles,’ or the upper two of the four Indian Buddhist tenets. In terms of causes and results, it refers to the paths and results of bodhisattvas +
de bzhin nyid,de kho na nyid;དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་ དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་;suchness;suchness;tathatā;Ultimate state of being of phenomena. Synonym of “emptiness” and “ultimate reality,” etc. +
sgrub ‘jug;སྒྲུབ་འཇུག་;collective engager;collective engager;vidhipravṛtti;This is the mode of perceiving by non-conceptual subjective perception, through any one of the six sense consciousnesses. It perceives whatever appears to it without any process of elimination, in contrast to conceptual subjective mind, which produces a generic image of the object by a process of elimination and is thus known as “eliminative engager.” +
chos kyi bdag ‘dzin;ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་འཛིན་;apprehending/apprehension of a self of phenomena;apprehending/apprehension of a self of phenomena;According to Gorampa, this refers to conceptual thoughts apprehending phenomena in any of the four conceptually possible ways (i.e. as existent, as nonexistent, as both existent and nonexistent, or as neither existent nor nonexistent). +
skye mched;སྐྱེ་མཆེད་;āyatana;The ''āyatanas'' are ‘doors’ through which consciousness arises. They consist of the six inner sense powers (i.e. the five sense faculties plus the mind) and their six corresponding objects (i.e. form, sound, odour, taste, tangible objects and phenomena or objects of mental consciousness). +
bden par ‘dzin pa;བདེན་པར་འཛིན་པ་;apprehending as truly existent/apprehension of ‘true existence’;apprehending as truly existent/apprehension of ‘true existence’;This refers to the conceptual thought which conceives the individual or phenomena as truly existent. It is an abbreviation of “conceiving 'I' or phenomena as truly existent.” +
