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phung po lhag med kyi myang ’das;nirvana without residual aggregates;nirvana without residual aggregates;The final state of enlightenment attained when an enlightened being (an arhat or buddha) leaves their earthly body (composed of aggregates) and “passes into nirvāṇa.” When listeners attain cessation in the arhat’s nirvāṇa without residual aggregates, all their accumulated merit and qualities come to an end. On the other hand, the virtue and qualities that bodhisattvas accumulate never come to an end but continue to be active once they attain buddhahood. +
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sdug bsngal gsum;three kinds of suffering;three kinds of suffering;The three fundamental types of suffering to which beings in saṃsāra are subject: the suffering of change, suffering upon suffering, and the suffering of everything composite (or all-pervading suffering in the making). +
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thub pa;Capable One;capable one;muni;An epithet of the Buddha Śākyamuni, of ten translated as Mighty One. He was called “capable” because, when he was a bodhisattva and there was none who had the courage to tame the most unfortunate beings, with extremely gross views, defilements, and actions, he, our kind teacher, was the only one, of all the 1,002 buddhas of this Excellent Kalpa, who had the strength or capacity to vow to benefit them. +
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chos mngon pa;Abhidharma;One of the three scriptural collections;the branch of the Buddha’s teachings that deals mainly with psychology and logic +
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rnam thar sgog sum;three doors of perfect liberation;three doors of perfect liberation;Emptiness, absence of attributes, and absence of expectancy. +
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sde snod;collection;collection;piṭaka;A collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha’s teachings are generally divided into three collections or baskets: Vinaya, Sūtra, and Abhidharma. +
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drang don;expedient teachings;expedient teachings;Teachings intended to lead unrealized beings toward the truth of the ultimate (or definitive) teachings. +
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sangs rgyas;buddha;One who has dispelled (Tib. ''sangs'') the darkness of the two obscurations and developed (Tib.''rgyas'') the two kinds of omniscience (knowing the nature of phenomena and knowing the multiplicity of phenomena). +
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bdud;demon;demon;māra;In the context of Buddhist meditation and practice, a demon is any factor, on the physical or mental plane, that obstructs enlightenment. +
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bslabs pa gsum;three trainings;three trainings;triśikṣā;The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom. +
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dbyig gnyen;Vasubandhu;Asaṅga’s half-brother and disciple, famous in particular for his authorship of the classic text ''Treasury of Abhidharma'' (''Abhidharmakośa''). +
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dge ba’i gshes gnyen;spiritual friend;spiritual friend;kalyāṇamitra;A spiritual guide or teacher. +
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’dod khams;world of desire;world of desire;kāmaloka or ''kāmadhātu''.;The first of the three worlds, comprising the hells, and the realms of the hungry spirits, animals, humans, demigods, and the six classes of gods of the world of desire. +
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byang chub gsum;three kinds of enlightenment;three kinds of enlightenment;The enlightenment of the listeners, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas. +
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‘jig rten las ‘das pa;supramundane;supramundane;Anything that transcends saṃsāra. The term “supramundane being” is generally applied to the noble beings of the Great Vehicle and Lesser Vehicle. +
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nges ’byung;certain deliverance;certain deliverance;niḥsaraṇa;A synonym for liberation from saṃsāra. +
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sprul sku;body of manifestation;body of manifestation;nirmāṇakāya;The aspect of buddhahood that manifests out of compassion in all sorts of forms to help ordinary beings. +
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rgyun du zhugs pa;stream enterer;stream enterer;The first of the four results of the listeners’ path, one who has completed the listeners’ path of seeing. +
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ye shes bzhi;four kinds of gnosis;four kinds of gnosis;Mirror like gnosis (''me long lta bu’i ye shes''), gnosis of equality (''mnyam pa nyid kyi ye shes''), all-discerning gnosis (''so sor kun tu rtog pa’i ye shes), and all-accomplishing gnosis (''bya ba grub pa’i ye shes''). +
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bstan bcos;treatise;treatise;śāstra;In the context of Buddhist literature, a work by an Indian or Tibetan master that comments on the Buddha’s teachings or presents them in condensed or more accessible form. +
