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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.” +
gzhan gi ngo pos stong pa nyid;གཞན་གི་ངོ་པོས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་;emptiness,devoid of others’ nature;emptiness,devoid of others’ nature;Also known as “gzhan stong” or “emptiness of other.” With regard to the Tibetan Gzhan stong school, among the three characteristics: the ‘perfect’ [pariniṣpanna] is devoid ofthe ‘imputed’ [parikalpita] and ‘dependent’ [paratantra]. This is their definition of actual ultimate reality. +
chos kyi bdag;ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་;self of phenomena;self of phenomena;dharmātman;Object of mode of apprehending of the concept which conceives mere phenomena or things as any of the four elaborations. +
nges ‘byin;ངེས་འབྱིན་;definitely uprooting;definitely uprooting;nairyāṇika;This is a feature of the exalted path, realization - the fourth aspect of the noble truth of path. +
gzhan la grags kyi rjes dpag;གཞན་ལ་གྲགས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་དཔག་;inference (or syllogism) known to other/opponent;inference (or syllogism) known to other/opponent;para-prasiddha-anumāna;In the context of philosophical debate, this refers to the reasoning accepted by the realists. This is one ofthe four unique ultimate analyses of Prāsaṅgika. +
nges ‘byung;ངེས་འབྱུང་;definite emergence;definite emergence;niḥsaraṇa;It refers to the fourth feature of the noble truth of cessation, the definite emergence from cyclic existence. +
don spyi;དོན་སྤྱི་;generic image;generic image;arthasāmānya;The generic image is the mental image object, which is superimposed by conceptual thought and which is its direct object. For instance, when we think of emptiness, the concept of emptiness is arrived at by eliminating non-emptiness. That emptiness is the generic imge of emptiness, not the actual emptiness. +
rang rgyud pa;རང་རྒྱུད་པ་;Svātantrika;One ofthe two main branches of the Madhyamaka. It differs from the other main branch, Prāsaṅgika, because it employs autonomous or autonomous syllogisms to establish ultimate reality. +
dngos po;དངོས་པོ་;functional phenomena;functional phenomena;bhāva,vastu;This refers to phenomena which perform a function. Functional phenomena are impermanent and compounded. +
‘dzin stangs kyi gzung bya;འཛིན་སྟངས་ཀྱི་གཟུང་བྱ་;object of mode of apprehending;object of mode of apprehending;muṣṭi-bandha-viṣaya;Abstract object aspect of the subjective conceptual mind. +
dmigs pa med pa’i snying rje;དམིགས་པ་མེད་པའི་སྙིང་རྗེ་;non-conceptual compassion;non-conceptual compassion;Exalted level of compassion combined with superior wisdom, which does not conceive any kind of phenomena. +
