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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. +
mtha’ gnyis;མཐའ་གཉིས་;two extremes;two extremes;antadvaya,dvayānta;The extremes of eternalism and annihilationism. This sometimes refers to “inherent existence” and “inherent nonexistence.” It is the brief exposition of the extremes;the broader exposition being the “four extremes.” +
‘gal brjod thal ‘gyur;འགལ་བརྗོད་ཐལ་འགྱུར་;contradictory consequence;contradictory consequence;prasaṅga;This term refers to pointing out the logical absurdity in the proponent’s argument. Identifying the contradictory consequences or logical absurdities in the proponent’s argument without putting forward its own proposition, is the main method of disputation utilized by the Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka school when debating against both the inner (Buddhist) and outer (non-Buddhist) realist schools concerning ultimate reality. +
nang gi dngos por smra ba;ནང་གི་དངོས་པོར་སྨྲ་བ་;inner realist schools;inner realist schools;These are the lower three of the four Indian Buddhist philosophical schools, which are characterized by advocating inherent existence ofphenomena at the ultimate level. +
gnyis snang;གཉིས་སྣང་;dualistic perception;dualistic perception;Separate appearance of subjective and objective aspects. +
all-base consciousness;all-base consciousness;ālaya-vijñāna +
dbu ma pa;དབུ་མ་པ་;Mādhyamika;A proponent of the Madhyamaka view. +
rdo rje gzegs ma’i rigs pa tibetan=རྡོ་རྗེ་གཟེགས་མའི་རིགས་པ་;‘vajra fragments’ analysis;‘vajra fragments’ analysis;One of the five analyses proving phenomena do not exist at the ultimate level;it shows that phenomena do not arise from a cause;without a cause;both from and without a cause;or neither from nor without a cause. +
chad pa’i lta ba;ཆད་པའི་ལྟ་བ་;annihilationism;annihilationism;uccheda darśana;This refers both to the view held by certain heretic or non-Buddhist schools that karma and results, varieties ofthe spiritual path, realized persons, enlightenment, etc. do not exist at the relative level, and also to the conceptual thought which conceives that something which previously existed “inherently” has ceased forever. +
dbu ma;དབུ་མ་;Madhyamaka school;madhyamaka school;This is also known as the Middle Way school. It regards itself as the highest of the four Indian schools, based on the fact that it does not accept phenomena at the ultimate level. +
sel ‘jug;སེལ་འཇུག་;eliminative engager;eliminative engager;apohapravṛtti;This is the mode of perceiving engaged in by the conceptual mind in order to produce an image of its object. For example, the concept of tree is arrived at by eliminating non-tree. It is said that what we perceive directly through the conceptual mind is a generic image of an object rather than the specifically characterized object itself. +
