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| placement meditation settling meditation 'jog sgom | 'jog sgom - This is the meditation of directly observing the mind without engaging in any analytical or intellectual activity. (Thrangu Rinpoche, Transcending Ego, 102). Skt. स्थाप्यभावना Tib. འཇོག་སྒོམ་ | Key Terms/'jog sgom |
| AA aA | AA - Abhisamayālaṃkāra | AA |
| AAvivṛti aAvivṛti | AAvivṛti - Abhisamayālaṃkāravivṛti | AAvivṛti |
| AAvṛtti aAvṛtti | AAvṛtti - Abhisamayālaṃkāravṛtti | AAvṛtti |
| AAĀ aAĀ | AAĀ - Abhisamayālaṃkārālokā | AAĀ |
| abhidharma མངོན་པ། Abhidharma | abhidharma - Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The abhidharma teachings present a meta-knowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha. Skt. अभिधर्म Tib. ཆོས་མངོན་པ། Ch. 阿毗达磨 | Key Terms/abhidharma |
| actualized enlightenment Actualized Enlightenment Actualized enlightenment | actualized enlightenment - Actualized enlightenment is enlightenment that is attained through practice. It is contrasted with original enlightenment, which is the mind's innate purity in its natural state. Ultimately, there is no difference between them. Because of the presence of ignorance, sentient beings are blind to their true nature. By removing that ignorance, one actualizes enlightenment. Ch. 始覺 | Key Terms/actualized enlightenment |
| nonduality nondual advaya Advaya | advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt. अद्वय Tib. གཉིས་མེད་ Ch. 不二 | Key Terms/advaya |
| AK aK | AK - Abhidharmakośakārikā | AK |
| AKBh aKBh | AKBh - Abhidharmakośabhāṣya | AKBh |
| AKVy aKVy | AKVy - Abhidharmakośavyākhyā | AKVy |
| AkṣN akṣN | AkṣN - Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra | AkṣN |
| amalavijñāna ninth consciousness Amalavijñāna | amalavijñāna - The ninth consciousness, the immaculate pure mind. Ch. 啊摩羅識,無垢識 | Key Terms/amalavijñāna |
| AMS aMS | AMS - Aṅgulimālīyasūtra | AMS |
| Anuyoga rjes su rnal 'byor anuyoga | Anuyoga - The second set of the three inner tantras and the eighth of the nine vehicles according to the Nyingma tradition. Anuyoga includes many yogini tantras and focuses on the Completion Stage practices of sacred channels, energies and essential fluids and espouses the actualisation of empty bliss. Skt. अनुयोग Tib. ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག | Key Terms/Anuyoga |
| selflessness anātman Anātman | anātman - The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity. Skt. अनात्मन् Tib. བདག་མེད་པ་ Ch. 无我 | Key Terms/anātman |
| AOH aOH | AOH - Acta Orientalia (Budapest) | AOH |
| AP aP | AP - Asian Philosophy | AP |
| arhat foe destroyer Arhat | arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again. Skt. अर्हत् Tib. དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། Ch. 阿羅漢 | Key Terms/arhat |
| ARIRIAB aRIRIAB | ARIRIAB - Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University | ARIRIAB |
| AS aS | AS - Asiatische Studien | AS |
| Atiyoga shin tu rnal sbyor atiyoga | Atiyoga - A system of esoteric thought and practice associated with the Nyingma tradition and equivalent to Great Perfection, it is considered as the pinnacle of the nine vehicles or paths one can follow to reach Buddhahood. The system focusses on the pure, luminous and empty nature of the mind as the ground reality which must be realised through the path of trekchö and thögal practice. Skt. अतियोग Tib. ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག,ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར། | Key Terms/Atiyoga |
| AU aU | AU - Amṛtakaṇikodyotanibandha | AU |
| ignorance unawareness avidyā Avidyā | avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明 | Key Terms/avidyā |
| Aṣṭa aṣṭa | Aṣṭa - Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā | Aṣṭa |
| BA bA | BA - The Blue Annals | BA |
| BA (Tib) bA (Tib) | BA (Tib) - Deb ther sngon po | BA (Tib) |
| BCA bCA | BCA - Bodhicaryāvatāra | BCA |
| BCAP bCAP | BCAP - Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā | BCAP |
| BCRD bCRD | BCRD - The Buddhist Canons Research Database a project of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS) and the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies (CCBS) http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/ | BCRD |
| BDRC bDRC | BDRC - Buddhist Digital Resource Center https://www.tbrc.org/ | BDRC |
| BEFEO bEFEO | BEFEO - Bulletin d'École Française d'Extrême-Orient | BEFEO |
| BhK I bhK I | BhK I - Bhāvanākrama I | BhK I |
| BHSD bHSD | BHSD - Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 2 | BHSD |
| BHSG bHSG | BHSG - Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 1 | BHSG |
| bhūmis bhumi bhumis bhūmi Bhūmi | bhūmi - A plateau of spiritual development. Skt. भूमि Tib. ས་ | Key Terms/bhūmi |
| Bobh bobh | Bobh - Bodhisattvabhūmi | Bobh |
| bodhi Bodhi | bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt. बोधि Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ Ch. 菩提,悟,覺 | Key Terms/bodhi |
| thought of awakening mind of enlightenment mind of awakening awakening mind bodhicitta Bodhicitta | bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt. बोधिचित्त Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། Ch. 菩提心 | Key Terms/bodhicitta |
| bodhigarbha Bodhigarbha | bodhigarbha - An alternative term for tathāgatagarbha found in early Nyingma sources. Though it is back-translated as bodhigarbha, this term does not seem to be found in Sanskrit sources. However, in other contexts, the Tibetan byang chub snying po is often used to translate the Sanskrit term bodhimaṇḍa, which is often translated as the "seat of enlightenment." Skt. बोधिगर्भ Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོ་ | Key Terms/bodhigarbha |
| Bodhisattva byang chub sems dpa' jangchub sempa bodhisattva | Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩 | Key Terms/Bodhisattva |
| Bodong Bodong Tradition bodong | Bodong - The Bodong tradition generally refers to the vast body of literature and activity stemming from Bodong Panchen Choklé Namgyal (1375/76-1451) and the monastery of Bodong E to the north of Sakya and the west of Narthang. Tib. བོ་དོང་ | Key Terms/Bodong |
| BPPB bPPB | BPPB - Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica | BPPB |
| Brahman brahman | Brahman - Brahman is the universal principle, supreme truth or ultimate reality in the Hindu religion considered to be absolute, eternal and blissful. A metaphysical concept, it is described as the single binding unity behind the diversity of all that exists. In Buddhism, while this metaphysical principle is not presented, one finds frequent mention of the deity named Brahmā, who is the personification of this principle. Skt. ब्रह्मन् Tib. ཚངས་པ། | Key Terms/Brahman |
| BSOAS bSOAS | BSOAS - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | BSOAS |
| buddhadhātu Buddhadhātu | buddhadhātu - A synonym for tathāgatagarbha widely used throughout the East Asian Buddhist traditions, as found in its translations as the Chinese term fó xìng and Japanese term busshō. Skt. बुद्धधातु Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ Ch. 佛性 | Key Terms/buddhadhātu |
| byams chos sde lnga Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya dharma works of Maitreya Five Dharmas of Maitreya five treatises of Maitreya five books of Maitreya five doctrines of Maitreya Byams chos sde lnga five teachings of Maitreya | byams chos sde lnga - This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita. Tib. བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་ | Key Terms/byams chos sde lnga |
| seed karmic seed karmic seeds bīja Bīja | bīja - A seed, commonly used figuratively in the sense of something which has the potential to develop or grow, and likewise as the basic cause for this development or growth. Skt. बीज Tib. ས་བོན་ Ch. 無漏種 | Key Terms/bīja |
| CAJ cAJ | CAJ - Central Asiatic Journal | CAJ |
| Caturmudrā caturmudrā | Caturmudrā - Caturmudrāviniścaya | Caturmudrā |
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