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− | + | [[absolute truth]] (Tib. [[don dam bden pa]]): the ultimate nature of the mind and the true status of all phenomena, the state beyond all conceptual constructs which can be known only by primordial wisdom and in a manner that transcends duality. The way things are from the point of view of realized beings. [MR] | |
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− | [[ | + | [[Accomplishment]] - (1) [[dngos grub]], Skt. siddhi. The fruit wished for and obtained through the practice of the instructions. Common accomplishments can be simply supernatural powers, but the term accomplishment can also refer to the supreme accomplishment, which is enlightenment. (2) sgrub pa. In the context of the recitation of mantras. [MR] |
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− | [[ | + | [[Actions]] ([[las]]): actions resulting in the experience of happiness for others and are defined as positive or virtuous; actions which give rise to suffering for others and oneself are described as negative or non-virtuous. Every action, whether physical, mental or verbal is like a seed leading to a result that will be experienced in this life or in a future life. [MR] |
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+ | [[Afflictive mental factors]], or negative emotions (Tib. [[nyon mongs]], Skt : (klesha) : all mental events born from ego-clinging, that disturb the mind and obscures it. The five principal afflictive mental factors, which are sometimes called "mental poisons", are attachment, hatred, ignorance, envy and pride. They are the main causes of both immediate and long term sufferings. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Aggregates, Five]] (Tib. [[spung po]], Skt. skandha), lit. "heaps", "aggregates", or "events". The five aggregates are the component elements of form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors and consciousness. They are the elements into which the person may be analyzed without residue. When they appear together, the illusion of 'self' is produced in the ignorant mind. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Appearances]] ([[snang ba]]) : the world of outer phenomena. Although these phenomena seems to have a true reality, their ultimate nature is emptiness. The gradual transformation of our way to perceive and understand these phenomena correspond to the various levels of the path to enlightenment. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Awareness, pure]] ([[rig pa]]): the non-dual ultimate nature of mind, which is totally free from delusion. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Bardo]] ([[bar do]]) : Tibetan word meaning "intermediary state". This term most often refers to the state between death and subsequent rebirth. In fact, human experience encompasses six types of bardo: the bardo of the present life, the bardo of meditation, the bardo of dream, the bardo of dying, the luminous bardo of ultimate reality and the bardo of becoming. The first three bardos unfold in the course of life. The second three refer to the death and rebirth process which terminates at conception at the beginning of the subsequent existence. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Bodhichitta]] ([[byang chub kyi sems]]): lit. "the mind of enlightenment". On the relative level, it is the wish to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings, as well as the practice of the path of love, compassion, the six transcendent perfections, etc., necessary for achieving that goal. On the absolute level, it is the direct insight into the ultimate nature. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Bodhisattva]] ([[byang chub sems dpa']]): One who through compassion strives to attain the full enlightenment buddhahood for the sake of all beings. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Buddha Nature]] ([[bde gshegs snying po]]): It is not an "entity" but the ultimate nature of mind, free from the veils of ignorance. Every sentient being is has the potential to actualize this Buddha Nature by attaining perfect knowledge of the nature of mind. It is in a way the "primordial goodness" of sentient beings. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Buddha]] ([[sangs rgyas]]): One who has eliminated the two veils - the veils of emotional obscurations and the cognitive obscuration, which is the dualistic conceptual thinking, which prevents omniscience - and who has developed the two wisdoms, the wisdom that know the ultimate nature ultimate nature of the mind and phenomena and the wisdom that knows the multiplicity of these phenomena. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Clinging]], grasping, [[attachment]] ([[bdag 'dzin]]): its two main aspects are clinging to the true reality of the ego, and clinging to the reality of outer phenomena. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Compassion]] ([[snying rje]]): the wish to free all beings from suffering and the causes of suffering (negatives actions and ignorance). It is complementary with altruistic love (the wish that all beings may find happiness and the causes of happiness), with sympathetic joy (which rejoices of others qualities) and with equanimity which extends the three former attitudes to all beings, whether friends, strangers or enemies. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Consciousness]] ([[rnam shes]]): Buddhism distinguishes various levels of consciousness: gross, subtle and extremely subtle. The first one correspond to the activity of the brain. The second one is what we intuitively call "consciousness", which is among other things the faculty of consciousness to know itself, investigate its own nature and exert free will. The third and most essential one is called the "fundamental luminosity of mind". [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Dharma]] ([[chos]]): this Sanskrit term is the normal word used to indicate the Doctrine of the Buddha. The Dharma of transmission refers to the corpus of verbal teachings, whether oral or written. The Dharma of realization refers to the spiritual qualities resulting from practising these teachings. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Duality]], dualistic perception ([[gnyis 'dzin]]): The ordinary perception of unenlightened beings. The apprehension of phenomena in terms of subject (consciousness) and object (mental images and the outer world), and the belief in their true existence. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Ego]], "I" ([[bdag]]): Despite the fact that we are a ceaselessly transforming stream, interdependent with other beings and the whole world, we imagine that there exist in us an unchanging entity that characterizes us and that we must protect and please. A thorough analysis of this ego reveals that it is but a fictitious mental construct. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Emptiness]] ([[stong pa nyid]]): the ultimate nature of phenomena, namely their lack of inherent existence. The ultimate understanding of emptiness goes together with the spontaneous arising of boundless compassion for sentient beings. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Enlightenment]] ([[sangs rgyas]]): synonymous of Buddhahood. The ultimate accomplishment of spiritual training. Consummate inner wisdom united with infinite compassion. A perfect understanding of the nature of mind and of phenomena, that is their relative mode of existence (the way they appears) and their ultimate nature (the way they are). Such understanding is the fundamental antidote to ignorance and therefore to suffering. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Existence]], true, intrinsic, or reality ([[bden 'dzin]]): A property attributed to phenomena, suggesting that they could be independent objects, existing in themselves, and having properties that belong to them intrinsically. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Habitual tendencies]] ([[bag chags]]): habitual patterns of thought, speech or action created by what one has done in past lives. AT: habits, inclinations, impregnations. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Ignorance]] ([[ma rig pa]]): An erroneous way to conceive of beings and things, which consist in attributing to them an existence that is real, independent, solid, and intrinsic. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Illusion]] ([['khrul pa]]): All ordinary perception deformed by ignorance. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Impermanence]] ([[mi rtag pa]]): It has two aspects: gross impermanence is pertains to visible change; subtle impermanence reflects the fact that nothing can remain identical to itself, even for the shortest conceivable moment. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Interdependence]] or "[[dependent origination]]" ([[rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba]]): a fundamental element of Buddhist teaching according to which phenomena are understood not as discretely existent entities, but as the coincidence of interdependent conditions. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Kalpa]] ([[bskal pa]]): A great kalpa, which corresponds to a cycle of formation and destruction of a universe, is divided into eighty intermediate kalpas. An intermediate kalpa is composed of one small kalpa during which the span of life, etc., increases and one small kalpa during which it decreases. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Karma]] ([[las]]): A Sanskrit word meaning "action", which refer to the law of cause an effect related to our thoughts, words and behavior. According to the Buddha's teachings, beings' destinies, joys, sufferings, and perceptions of the universe are due neither to chance nor to the will of some all-powerful entity. They are the result of previous actions. In the same way, beings' future are determined by the positive or negative quality of their current actions. Distinction is made between collective karma, which defines our general perception of the world, and individual karma, which determines our personal experiences. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Lama]] (Tib. [[bla ma]], Skt. guru): (1) spiritual teacher, explained as the contraction of bla na med pa, "nothing superior", (2) often used loosely for Buddhist monks or yogis in general. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Liberation]] ([[thar pa]]): to be free from suffering and the cycle of existences. This is not yet the attainment of full Buddhahood. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Lower realms]] ([[ngan song]]): the hells, the realms of pretas (tortured spirits) and of animals. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Meditation]] ([[sgom]]): A process of familiarization with a new perception of phenomena. Distinction is made between analytical meditation and contemplative meditation. The object of the former could be a point to be studied (for instance the notion of impermanence) or else a quality that we wish to develop (such as love and compassion). The latter allows us to recognize the ultimate nature of the mind and to remain within the realization of this nature, which lies beyond conceptual thought. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Merit]] (Tib. [[bsod nams]], Skt. punya): good karma, the energy generated by positive actions of body, speech and mind. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Middle Way]] (Tib. [[dbu ma]], Skt. madhyamika) : Buddhism' move elevated form of philosophy, so called because it avoids the two extremes of nihilism and of belief in the reality of phenomena (eternalism or materialism) [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Mind]] ([[sems]]), see also consciousness: In Buddhist term, the ordinary condition of the mind is characterized by ignorance and delusion. A succession of conscious instants gives it an appearance of continuity. In absolute terms, the mind has three aspects: emptiness, clarity (ability to know all things) and spontaneous compassion. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Nirvana]] ([[myang 'das]]): "Beyond suffering," expresses several levels of enlightenment, depending on whether our viewpoints is from the Basic Vehicle or the Great Vehicle. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Obscurations]] (Tib. [[sgrib pa]], Skt. avarana): factors which veil one's Buddha-nature. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Path]] ([[lam]]): The spiritual training that allows one to free oneself from the cycle of existence (samsara), then reach the state of Buddhahood. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Phenomena]] ([[snang ba]]): what appears to the mind, through sensory perceptions and mental events. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Rebirth]], [[reincarnation]] ([[skyes]]): The successive states that are experienced by the flow of consciousness, and which are punctuated by death, bardo, and birth. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Refuge]]: (1) [[skyabs yul]], the object in which one takes refuge, (2) [[skyabs 'gro]], the practice of taking refuge. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Relative truth]] ([[kun rdzob bden pa]]): lit. "all-concealing truth". This refers to phenomena in the ordinary sense, which, on the level of ordinary experience, are perceived as real and separate from the mind and which thus conceal their true nature. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Samsara]] ([['khor ba]]): the wheel or round of existence; the state of being unenlightened in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of desire, anger and ignorance, evolves uncontrolled from one state to another, passing through an endless stream of psycho-physical experiences all of which are characterized by suffering. It is only when one has realized the empty nature of phenomena et dispelled all mental obscurations that one can free oneself from samsara. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Suffering]] ([[sdug bsngal]]): The first the "Four Noble Truths," which are (1) the truth of suffering, which must be seen as beings omnipresent in samsara, (2) the truth of the origin of suffering - the negative emotions that we must eliminate, (3) the truth of the path (spiritual training) that we must take in order to reach liberation, and (4) the truth of the cessation of suffering, the fruit of training or the state of Buddhahood. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Sutra]] ([[mdo]]): the words of Buddha Shakyamuni, which were transcribed by his disciples. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Thoughts]], discursive ([[rnam par mi thog pa]]): A ordinary linking together of thoughts conditioned by ignorance and relative reality. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Three Jewels]] (Tib. [[dkon mchog gsum]], Skt. triratna): the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Three poisons]] ([[dug gsum]]): the three negative emotions of bewilderment, attachment and aversion. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[View]], [[meditation]] and [[action]] ([[lta]], [[sgom]], [[spyod pa]]): The vision of emptiness must be integrated into our mind via meditation, which must in turn be expressed in altruistic actions, and ultimate enlightened activities. [MR] | ||
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+ | [[Wisdom]] ([[shes rab]], [[ye shes]]): 1) the ability to discern correctly, the understanding of emptiness and 2) the primordial and non-dual knowing aspect of the nature of the mind. [MR] |
Revision as of 18:48, 14 January 2006
The category "Key Terms" refers to all the main words you would want to see in the list: the 2,000 most important words in the Dharma.
absolute truth (Tib. don dam bden pa): the ultimate nature of the mind and the true status of all phenomena, the state beyond all conceptual constructs which can be known only by primordial wisdom and in a manner that transcends duality. The way things are from the point of view of realized beings. [MR]
Accomplishment - (1) dngos grub, Skt. siddhi. The fruit wished for and obtained through the practice of the instructions. Common accomplishments can be simply supernatural powers, but the term accomplishment can also refer to the supreme accomplishment, which is enlightenment. (2) sgrub pa. In the context of the recitation of mantras. [MR]
Actions (las): actions resulting in the experience of happiness for others and are defined as positive or virtuous; actions which give rise to suffering for others and oneself are described as negative or non-virtuous. Every action, whether physical, mental or verbal is like a seed leading to a result that will be experienced in this life or in a future life. [MR]
Afflictive mental factors, or negative emotions (Tib. nyon mongs, Skt : (klesha) : all mental events born from ego-clinging, that disturb the mind and obscures it. The five principal afflictive mental factors, which are sometimes called "mental poisons", are attachment, hatred, ignorance, envy and pride. They are the main causes of both immediate and long term sufferings. [MR]
Aggregates, Five (Tib. spung po, Skt. skandha), lit. "heaps", "aggregates", or "events". The five aggregates are the component elements of form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors and consciousness. They are the elements into which the person may be analyzed without residue. When they appear together, the illusion of 'self' is produced in the ignorant mind. [MR]
Appearances (snang ba) : the world of outer phenomena. Although these phenomena seems to have a true reality, their ultimate nature is emptiness. The gradual transformation of our way to perceive and understand these phenomena correspond to the various levels of the path to enlightenment. [MR]
Awareness, pure (rig pa): the non-dual ultimate nature of mind, which is totally free from delusion. [MR]
Bardo (bar do) : Tibetan word meaning "intermediary state". This term most often refers to the state between death and subsequent rebirth. In fact, human experience encompasses six types of bardo: the bardo of the present life, the bardo of meditation, the bardo of dream, the bardo of dying, the luminous bardo of ultimate reality and the bardo of becoming. The first three bardos unfold in the course of life. The second three refer to the death and rebirth process which terminates at conception at the beginning of the subsequent existence. [MR]
Bodhichitta (byang chub kyi sems): lit. "the mind of enlightenment". On the relative level, it is the wish to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings, as well as the practice of the path of love, compassion, the six transcendent perfections, etc., necessary for achieving that goal. On the absolute level, it is the direct insight into the ultimate nature. [MR]
Bodhisattva (byang chub sems dpa'): One who through compassion strives to attain the full enlightenment buddhahood for the sake of all beings. [MR]
Buddha Nature (bde gshegs snying po): It is not an "entity" but the ultimate nature of mind, free from the veils of ignorance. Every sentient being is has the potential to actualize this Buddha Nature by attaining perfect knowledge of the nature of mind. It is in a way the "primordial goodness" of sentient beings. [MR]
Buddha (sangs rgyas): One who has eliminated the two veils - the veils of emotional obscurations and the cognitive obscuration, which is the dualistic conceptual thinking, which prevents omniscience - and who has developed the two wisdoms, the wisdom that know the ultimate nature ultimate nature of the mind and phenomena and the wisdom that knows the multiplicity of these phenomena. [MR]
Clinging, grasping, attachment (bdag 'dzin): its two main aspects are clinging to the true reality of the ego, and clinging to the reality of outer phenomena. [MR]
Compassion (snying rje): the wish to free all beings from suffering and the causes of suffering (negatives actions and ignorance). It is complementary with altruistic love (the wish that all beings may find happiness and the causes of happiness), with sympathetic joy (which rejoices of others qualities) and with equanimity which extends the three former attitudes to all beings, whether friends, strangers or enemies. [MR]
Consciousness (rnam shes): Buddhism distinguishes various levels of consciousness: gross, subtle and extremely subtle. The first one correspond to the activity of the brain. The second one is what we intuitively call "consciousness", which is among other things the faculty of consciousness to know itself, investigate its own nature and exert free will. The third and most essential one is called the "fundamental luminosity of mind". [MR]
Dharma (chos): this Sanskrit term is the normal word used to indicate the Doctrine of the Buddha. The Dharma of transmission refers to the corpus of verbal teachings, whether oral or written. The Dharma of realization refers to the spiritual qualities resulting from practising these teachings. [MR]
Duality, dualistic perception (gnyis 'dzin): The ordinary perception of unenlightened beings. The apprehension of phenomena in terms of subject (consciousness) and object (mental images and the outer world), and the belief in their true existence. [MR]
Ego, "I" (bdag): Despite the fact that we are a ceaselessly transforming stream, interdependent with other beings and the whole world, we imagine that there exist in us an unchanging entity that characterizes us and that we must protect and please. A thorough analysis of this ego reveals that it is but a fictitious mental construct. [MR]
Emptiness (stong pa nyid): the ultimate nature of phenomena, namely their lack of inherent existence. The ultimate understanding of emptiness goes together with the spontaneous arising of boundless compassion for sentient beings. [MR]
Enlightenment (sangs rgyas): synonymous of Buddhahood. The ultimate accomplishment of spiritual training. Consummate inner wisdom united with infinite compassion. A perfect understanding of the nature of mind and of phenomena, that is their relative mode of existence (the way they appears) and their ultimate nature (the way they are). Such understanding is the fundamental antidote to ignorance and therefore to suffering. [MR]
Existence, true, intrinsic, or reality (bden 'dzin): A property attributed to phenomena, suggesting that they could be independent objects, existing in themselves, and having properties that belong to them intrinsically. [MR]
Habitual tendencies (bag chags): habitual patterns of thought, speech or action created by what one has done in past lives. AT: habits, inclinations, impregnations. [MR]
Ignorance (ma rig pa): An erroneous way to conceive of beings and things, which consist in attributing to them an existence that is real, independent, solid, and intrinsic. [MR]
Illusion ('khrul pa): All ordinary perception deformed by ignorance. [MR]
Impermanence (mi rtag pa): It has two aspects: gross impermanence is pertains to visible change; subtle impermanence reflects the fact that nothing can remain identical to itself, even for the shortest conceivable moment. [MR]
Interdependence or "dependent origination" (rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba): a fundamental element of Buddhist teaching according to which phenomena are understood not as discretely existent entities, but as the coincidence of interdependent conditions. [MR]
Kalpa (bskal pa): A great kalpa, which corresponds to a cycle of formation and destruction of a universe, is divided into eighty intermediate kalpas. An intermediate kalpa is composed of one small kalpa during which the span of life, etc., increases and one small kalpa during which it decreases. [MR]
Karma (las): A Sanskrit word meaning "action", which refer to the law of cause an effect related to our thoughts, words and behavior. According to the Buddha's teachings, beings' destinies, joys, sufferings, and perceptions of the universe are due neither to chance nor to the will of some all-powerful entity. They are the result of previous actions. In the same way, beings' future are determined by the positive or negative quality of their current actions. Distinction is made between collective karma, which defines our general perception of the world, and individual karma, which determines our personal experiences. [MR]
Lama (Tib. bla ma, Skt. guru): (1) spiritual teacher, explained as the contraction of bla na med pa, "nothing superior", (2) often used loosely for Buddhist monks or yogis in general. [MR]
Liberation (thar pa): to be free from suffering and the cycle of existences. This is not yet the attainment of full Buddhahood. [MR]
Lower realms (ngan song): the hells, the realms of pretas (tortured spirits) and of animals. [MR]
Meditation (sgom): A process of familiarization with a new perception of phenomena. Distinction is made between analytical meditation and contemplative meditation. The object of the former could be a point to be studied (for instance the notion of impermanence) or else a quality that we wish to develop (such as love and compassion). The latter allows us to recognize the ultimate nature of the mind and to remain within the realization of this nature, which lies beyond conceptual thought. [MR]
Merit (Tib. bsod nams, Skt. punya): good karma, the energy generated by positive actions of body, speech and mind. [MR]
Middle Way (Tib. dbu ma, Skt. madhyamika) : Buddhism' move elevated form of philosophy, so called because it avoids the two extremes of nihilism and of belief in the reality of phenomena (eternalism or materialism) [MR]
Mind (sems), see also consciousness: In Buddhist term, the ordinary condition of the mind is characterized by ignorance and delusion. A succession of conscious instants gives it an appearance of continuity. In absolute terms, the mind has three aspects: emptiness, clarity (ability to know all things) and spontaneous compassion. [MR]
Nirvana (myang 'das): "Beyond suffering," expresses several levels of enlightenment, depending on whether our viewpoints is from the Basic Vehicle or the Great Vehicle. [MR]
Obscurations (Tib. sgrib pa, Skt. avarana): factors which veil one's Buddha-nature. [MR]
Path (lam): The spiritual training that allows one to free oneself from the cycle of existence (samsara), then reach the state of Buddhahood. [MR]
Phenomena (snang ba): what appears to the mind, through sensory perceptions and mental events. [MR]
Rebirth, reincarnation (skyes): The successive states that are experienced by the flow of consciousness, and which are punctuated by death, bardo, and birth. [MR]
Refuge: (1) skyabs yul, the object in which one takes refuge, (2) skyabs 'gro, the practice of taking refuge. [MR]
Relative truth (kun rdzob bden pa): lit. "all-concealing truth". This refers to phenomena in the ordinary sense, which, on the level of ordinary experience, are perceived as real and separate from the mind and which thus conceal their true nature. [MR]
Samsara ('khor ba): the wheel or round of existence; the state of being unenlightened in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of desire, anger and ignorance, evolves uncontrolled from one state to another, passing through an endless stream of psycho-physical experiences all of which are characterized by suffering. It is only when one has realized the empty nature of phenomena et dispelled all mental obscurations that one can free oneself from samsara. [MR]
Suffering (sdug bsngal): The first the "Four Noble Truths," which are (1) the truth of suffering, which must be seen as beings omnipresent in samsara, (2) the truth of the origin of suffering - the negative emotions that we must eliminate, (3) the truth of the path (spiritual training) that we must take in order to reach liberation, and (4) the truth of the cessation of suffering, the fruit of training or the state of Buddhahood. [MR]
Sutra (mdo): the words of Buddha Shakyamuni, which were transcribed by his disciples. [MR]
Thoughts, discursive (rnam par mi thog pa): A ordinary linking together of thoughts conditioned by ignorance and relative reality. [MR]
Three Jewels (Tib. dkon mchog gsum, Skt. triratna): the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. [MR]
Three poisons (dug gsum): the three negative emotions of bewilderment, attachment and aversion. [MR]
View, meditation and action (lta, sgom, spyod pa): The vision of emptiness must be integrated into our mind via meditation, which must in turn be expressed in altruistic actions, and ultimate enlightened activities. [MR]
Wisdom (shes rab, ye shes): 1) the ability to discern correctly, the understanding of emptiness and 2) the primordial and non-dual knowing aspect of the nature of the mind. [MR]
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Pages in category "Key Terms"
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- E and VAM
- Early Translations
- Earth terma
- Effect
- Ego
- Ego Consciousness
- Ego-clinging
- Egolessness
- Eight Aspects of the Path of Noble Beings
- Eight Auspicious Substances
- Eight Black and White Deeds
- Eight Chariots of the Practice Lineage
- Eight Chariots of Transmission
- Eight Classes of Gods and Demons
- Eight Collections of Consciousness
- Eight Collections of Consciousnesses
- Eight collections of consciousnesses
- Eight conditions that cause one to drift away from the dharma
- Eight conditions that limit one's natural potential to attain freedom
- Eight Freedoms
- Eight Great Accomplishment
- Eight Great Bodhisattvas
- eight great charnel grounds
- Eight great vidyadharas
- Eight Sadhana Teachings
- eight unfree states
- Eight vehicles
- Eight worldly concerns
- Eighteen Distinct Doctrines of the Buddhas
- Eighteen Elements
- Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras
- Eighty Inherent Thought States
- Eighty Innate Thought States
- Eighty Minor Marks of Excellence
- Ekajati
- Elements
- Emanation
- Embodiment of the Precious Ones
- Emotional Obscuration
- Empowerment
- Empowerment of Longevity
- Emptiness
- Empty Luminosity
- Empty of Inherent Existence
- Enhancement
- Enlightened Beings
- Enlightenment
- Entrustment
- Envy
- Equanimity
- Essence kaya
- Essence Mantra
- Essence mantra
- Essence of the Sugatas
- Essence, nature, and capacity
- Essence, Nature, Capacity
- Eternalism
- Existence
- Experience and Realization
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- Family
- Father Tantra
- Feast offering
- Fierce Mantras
- Five aggregates
- Five Aspects of Involvement
- Five Aspects of Mantra
- Five Awakenings
- Five Basic Mahayoga Tantras
- Five conflicting emotions
- Five Consorts
- Five Dakini Aspects
- Five Early Translations
- Five Elements
- Five elements
- Five eminent beings
- Five Families
- Five greatnesses
- Five Kayas
- Five kayas
- Five kayas of fruition
- Five kinds of wrong livelihood
- Five male Buddhas
- Five paths
- five paths
- Five poisons
- Five Powerful Ones
- Five precious things
- five riches from oneself are
- five riches from others are
- Five sciences
- Five Sense Consciousnesses
- Five Stages
- Five Treasuries
- Five Types of Speech
- Five Wisdoms
- Five wisdoms
- Fixation
- Fixation - continued
- Form Realm
- Formless Realm
- Formless realm
- Formless Realms
- Forty Thought States of Desire
- Four activities
- Four Applications of Mindfulness
- Four Aspects of Approach and Accomplishment
- Four Awakenings
- Four Bardos
- Four Basic Strayings
- Four Bodies of a Buddha
- Four Cycles of Guru Sadhana
- Four Dhyana States
- Four dhyana states of serenity
- Four districts of Ü and Tsang
- Four Districts of Ü and Tsang
- Four Doors of Birth
- Four empowerments
- Four formless states of serenity
- Four Great Kalpas
- Four Human Unfree States
- Four Immeasurables
- Four kayas
- Four Kayas
- Four Lamps
- Four Legs of Miraculous Action
- Four Major Sections of Yoga Tantra
- Four Maras
- Four Mind Changings
- Four modes
- Four Nails
- Four noble truths
- Four Nonhuman Unfree States
- Four Obscurations
- Four Ornaments
- Four philosophical schools
- Four Precepts
- Four Rivers
- Four Rivers of the Transmission
- Four root precepts
- Four Schools
- Four Sections of Tantra
- Four Sisters
- Four Special Qualities of the Transmitted Precepts
- Four Tantras
- Four Times Hundred Thousand Practices
- Four types of right discrimination
- Four Wrathful Gate Keepers
- Fourfold Fearlessness
- Freedoms and riches
- Fruition
- Fruitional Vehicle
G
- g.yu khog bya bral ba
- Ganachakra
- Gandharvas
- Gangteng Monastery
- garbha
- Garuda
- Garwang Drodul Lingpa
- Gektor
- general outer preliminaries
- Generation Process
- Generosity
- Geru
- Geshe
- Getse Jigme Ngotsar
- Ghanavyuha
- gnam chos
- gnam chos mi 'gyur rdo rje
- Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche
- Gongdu
- Gonpo Tseten Rinpoche
- Good Aeon
- Gowo Rabjampa Sonam Senge
- Grasping and Fixation
- Great Accomplishment
- Great Aeon
- Great Dharma king of India
- Great Primordial Purity
- Great Wrathful One
- Ground
- Ground Luminosity
- Ground, Path, And Fruition
- gter bdag gling pa
- gter chen 'gyur med rdor rje
- gter chen gter bdag gling pa
- Guardians of the Teaching
- Gugey
- Guhya Mantra
- Guhyagarbha
- guhyamantra
- Guru
- Guru Chowang
- Guru Jober
- Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles
- Gutrul Sangwa Nyingpo
- Gyalpo spirits
- Gyalse Orgyen Tendzin
- Gyalse Sonam Detsen
- Gyalse Tulku Drakpa Ozer
- Gyalwa Phukhang Monastery
- Gyangkhang Rigdizn Jigme Rangdrol
- Gyangkhang Tulku
- Gyarong Tendzin Drakpa
- Gyu Sangwa Nyingpo
H
- Habitual Obscuration
- Habitual tendencies
- Habitual Tendencies
- Hearing Lineage
- hearing lineage
- Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse
- Heart Sutra
- Heat and Summit
- Heat of samadhi
- Heretic
- Heruka
- Hidden Treasures
- Higher Abhidharma
- Higher perceptions
- Highest Limit of Reality
- Hinayana
- Hinayana Path
- Hindus
- Hope and Fear
- hridaya
- Hundred syllable mantra
- Hundred Syllables of Vajrasattva
- Hungry Ghosts
I
- Ignorance
- Ignorance of the Imaginary
- Ignorant All-Ground
- Ignorant all-ground
- ignorant aspect of the all-ground
- Illumination
- Illusion
- Impermanence
- Increase
- Individual Liberation
- Individual Self
- Indivisibility
- Inherently Present
- Innate Nature
- Innate nature
- Innate Wakefulness
- Inner Tantras
- Innermost Unexcelled Cycle of the Great Perfection
- Insight
- Interdependence
- Intrinsic Awareness
- Investigation of Act and Actor
- Investigation of Actions and Fruits
- Investigation of Anguish
- Investigation of Birth, Abiding and Perishing
- Investigation of Bondage and Freedom
- Investigation of Combination
- Investigation of Coming and Going
- Investigation of Conditions
- Investigation of Connections
- Investigation of Desire and the Desirous One
- Investigation of Error
- Investigation of Essences
- Investigation of Extremes of Before and After
- Investigation of Fire and Firewood
- Investigation of Nirvana
- Investigation of Rising and Passing
- Investigation of Samskaras
- Investigation of Self and Things
- Investigation of the Aggregates
- Investigation of the Elements
- Investigation of the Ennobling Truths
- Investigation of the Presence of Something Prior
- Investigation of the Sense Organs
- Investigation of the Tathagata
- Investigation of Time
- Investigation of Views
- Ishvara
J
K
- Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery
- Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery
- Kagye Desheg Dupa
- Kalpa
- Kalsang Monastery
- Kangyur
- Kapala
- kar ma chags med r'a ga a syas
- Karma
- Karma Chagme Raga Asey
- Karma Chagmey
- Karma Kuchen Dongak Chokyi Nyima
- Karma Kuchen Karma Chopal Zangpo
- Karma Kuchen Karma Gyurme
- Karma Kuchen Karma Thegchog Nyingpo
- Karma Lhawang
- Karma Lingpa
- Karmamudra
- Karmic Obscurations
- Kartor
- Kashyapa
- Kathog Situ Rinpoche
- Kathok Dampa Deshek Sherab Senge
- Kathok Gyaltsap Rinpoche
- Kathok Moktsa Rinpoche
- Kathok Sonam Gyaltsen
- Kaya
- Kayas and Wisdoms
- Key Points of Instruction
- Khandro Nyingtik
- khang sar bstan pa'i dbang phyug
- Khangsar Tenpe Wangchug
- Khenchen Jampal Dewai Nyima
- Khenchen Khyabdal Lhundrub
- Khenchen Thupten Ozer
- Khenchen Yonten Gyatso
- Khenchen Zhenphen Chokyi Nangwa
- Khenpo
- Khenpo Chökhyab
- Khenpo Kunpal
- Khenpo Kunzang Palden
- Khenpo Lekshe Jorden
- Khenpo Ngaga
- Khenpo Ngagi Wangpo
- Khenpo Ngakchung
- Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
- Khenpo Palden Sherab
- Khenpo Shenga
- khyung lung ras pa dam tshig rdo rje
- Khyunglung Repa Damtsig Dorje
- Khyungtrul Pema Wangchen
- Kilaya Activity
- King Songtsen Gampo
- Klesha
- klong chen snying thig
- Knowledge
- Konchok Chidu
- Kriya
- Kriya Tantra
- Kriya Yoga
- Kriya, Ubhaya and Yoga
- Kshatriya
- Kshitigarbha
- Kyoton Shakya Yeshe
- Kün-zang La-may Zhal-lung
L
- Lachen Gongpa Rabsal
- Lachen Yonten Zung
- Lagla Sonam Chodrub
- Lake of Splendor
- Lake-born Guru
- Lake-born Vajra
- Lake-born Vajra Holder
- Lalitavistara
- Lama
- Lama Gönpo Tseten
- Lamps
- Large Perfection of Wisdom
- las rab gling pa gter ston bsod rgyal
- Layman
- Learning, reflection and meditation
- lha btsun nam mkha' 'jigs med
- Lhalung Monastery
- Lharje Cheton Gyanak
- Lharu
- Lhasa
- Lhatsun Namkha Jigme
- Lho Bongtrul Tendzin Nyima
- lho lung dkar dgon
- Lho Lungkar Monastery
- Lho Ontul Rinpoche
- Liberating Sorcery of Mother Deities
- Liberation
- Liberation Offering
- Longchen Nyingtik
- Longchenpa
- Lord of Death
- Lords of the Three Families
- Lotsawa
- Lotus Family
- Lotus Speech
- Lower Abhidharma
- Lower realms
- Lower sections of Secret Mantra
- Luminosity
- Luminous Vajra Essence
- Lung Anu Yoga
- Lungtrul Shedrub Tenpe Nyima
M
- Madhyamaka
- Magical Net
- Maha Yoga
- Mahakala
- Mahamudra
- Mahasandhi
- Mahayana
- Mahayoga
- Mahayoga Tantra
- Major and Minor Marks
- Major and minor marks of a Buddha
- Maledictory Fierce Mantra
- Mamaki
- Manchu
- Mandala
- Mandarava Flower
- Manifest Luminosity
- Manjugosha
- Manjushri Body
- Manjusri
- Mantra
- Mantra vehicle
- Mantrayana
- Mantrika
- Mara
- Mardza Ridge
- Markham Ridge
- Master
- Materiality
- mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje
- mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma
- me long rdo rje
- Meadow of Mönkha
- Means
- Means and Knowledge
- Means and knowledge
- Measureless Light
- Meditation
- Meditative absorption
- Melong Dorje
- Mending-purification
- Mental Constructs
- Menyag-rab Ridge
- Merit
- Mewa Khenchen Sonam Chodrub
- Mewa Khenpo Thupten
- Middle Way
- Mind
- Mind Consciousness
- Mind Essence
- Mind Only School
- Mind terma
- Mind-Only
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness and Introspection
- Mindrolling Monastery
- Minling Khenchen Orgyen Tendzin Dorje
- Minling Terchen Terdak Lingpa
- Minyak Kunzang Sonam
- Mipham
- Mipham Rinpoche
- Mirror-like Wisdom
- mkha' 'gro snying thig
- mkhan chen khyab brdal lhun grub
- mkhan chen thub bstan 'od zer
- mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho
- mkhan po chos khyab
- mkhan po ngag chung
- mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang
- mkhan po ngag ga
- mkhan po ngag gi dbang po
- mkhan po yon ga
- Mother Luminosity
- Mother of All Buddhas
- Mother Tantra
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Sumeru
- Mount Sumeru and the four continents
- Mount Tisey
- Mt. Kailash
- Mt. Meru
- Multiplicity
- Mundane Worship