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Glossary

'jog sgom

Noun

This is the meditation of directly observing the mind without engaging in any analytical or intellectual activity. (Thrangu Rinpoche, Transcending Ego, 102).

འཇོག་སྒོམ་
'jog sgom
स्थाप्यभावना
sthāpyabhāvanā
Jok gom
stapyabavana




placement meditation

abhidharma

Noun

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.

ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
chos mngon pa
अभिधर्म
abhidharma
Chö ngonpa
abhidharma
阿毗达磨
āpídámó


abhidharma

actualized enlightenment

Noun

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.

始覺
shijue

shikaku
actualized enlightenment

advaya

Adjective

Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two.

གཉིས་མེད་
gnyis med
अद्वय
advaya


不二
bu’er, bù èr

funi
nonduality

amalavijñāna

Noun

The ninth consciousness, the immaculate pure mind.

dri ma med pa'i rnam shes

*amalavijñāna


啊摩羅識, 無垢識
amoluo shi, wugou shi

amarashiki, mukushiki
immaculate consciousness

Anuyoga

School

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.

ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག
anu yo ga
अनुयोग
Anuyoga
Anuyoga
Anuyoga




Anuyoga, Subsequent Yoga

anātman

Noun

The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity.

བདག་མེད་པ་
bdag med pa
अनात्मन्

dakmépa

无我
wúwǒ

muga
selflessness

arhat

Noun

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.

དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ།
dgra bcom
अर्हत्
arhat
drachöm
arhat
阿羅漢
ā luó hàn
阿羅漢
arakan
arhat

Atiyoga

School

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.

ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག, ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར།
ati yoga, shin tu rnal 'byor
अतियोग
atiyoga
atiyoga
atiyoga




Utmost Yoga

avidyā

Noun

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.

མ་རིག་པ་
ma rig pa
अविद्या
avidyā
marikpa

無明
wú míng

mumyō
ignorance

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