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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. +
rang rgyud kyi rjes dpag;རང་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་དཔག་;autonomous inference;autonomous inference;svatantrānumāna;Inferential cognition based on reasoning with the three logically established modes. +
bag chags;བག་ཆགས་;latency;latency;vāsanā;Existing in the mind stream, but not developed. This includes the seeds and the dormant latencies. +
rjes dpag tshad ma;རྗེས་དཔག་ཚད་མ་;inferential cognition;inferential cognition;anumāna pramāna;Cognition based on deduction or logical reasoning;one of the two valid cognitions. +
thal ‘gyur pa;ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་;Prāsaṅgika;One of the two main branches of the Madhyamaka school, which instead of using autonomous syllogisms to establish ultimate reality, principally employs the method ofusing illogicalities in the opponent’s thesis to demonstrate the ‘harmful’ or illogical consequences flowing from it +
zhig pa dngos po;ཞིག་པ་དངོས་པོ་;entity of extinction;entity of extinction;Unique philosophical term introduced by Tsongkhapa, who maintains that the extinction of actions is a compounded phenomenon. +
shes bya’i sgrib pa;ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་;cognitive obscuration;cognitive obscuration;jñeyāvaraṇa;This term is used only in the Mahāyāna teachings. This obscuration is regarded as a barrier to attaining omniscience. +
post-attainment;post-attainment;The state immediately following any direct, transcendent experience of voidness, called "actual realization state." During the actual realization state the perception of the apparent world yields to the perception of its voidness, while in the post-attainment state the preconceived perception of the apparent world returns subtly altered by the preceding experience. +
tshogs 'khor;circle feast;circle feast;A feast of offering attended by the host of ḍakiṇīs ([[sic]]) +
torma;torma;Small cakes of barley flour or other similar substances used as offerings +
appearances,apparent world;appearances,apparent world;snang ba;snang ba;Reality as it appears to a common individual whose conditioned, distorted perception experiences reality in the form of discrete, independent identities. Synonym: illusory world, superficial reality. +
