niyāma (8302)

niyāma
Entry 8302, Page 298, Col. 2

(niyAma, niyAma)
niyāma¦, also nyāma, q.v., m. (= Pali and Skt. Gr. niyāma; Skt. niyama), fixed regulation; certainty, unchangeableness: °maḥ Mvy 6501 = Tib. ṅes par ḥgyur ba, what is certain to come to be; dharma-niyāma-tā Mvy 1714 = Tib. chos mi ḥgyur ba ñid, the doctrine's being unchangeably the same; SP 53.9 (vs); Laṅk 143.13; citta- nagaraniyāma-vidhijñena Gv 431.8 (fixed, established rules; text °vidha°, but cf. -vidhijñena line 9); bodhisattva- niyāma Dbh 11.27 (°maṃ jāto, born into the fixed way of Bodhisattvas); Dbh.g. 54(80).11; sattvān niyāmam avakrā- mayitum Dbh 63.14 (see Śikṣ, below, and cf. Pali (niyāma)- avakkanti, CPD), to make creatures enter into the fixed course, or unchangeable condition; yaiś ca…bhikṣubhir anavakrānta-niyāmair etad bhojanaṃ bhuktaṃ teṣām evāvakrāntaniyāmānāṃ pariṇaṃsyati Śikṣ 270.4--5. See on this and nyāma Wogihara, Lex. 28 ff. There is no doubt that these two words are the same, tho Tib. and Chin. have a different (and fantastic) explanation of nyāma; indeed, acc. to Wogihara, still other interpretations occur in northern Buddhist (Chin.) texts. They are certainly negligible. Most of the above passages are prose.

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