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== ''A Glossary of Buddhist People, Places, and Things...'' ==
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''- '''The Terms by which They're Defined''' -''
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<center>'''~~ <span class=TibUni20>[[རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཕིབ་རྒྱ་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཕོ་བྲང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕྲིན་ལས།]]</span> ~~'''</center></div>
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<center>'''''~~ A Glossary of Buddhist People, Places, and Things...~~'''''</center>
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    <td>[[Image:Buddha_6.jpg|thumb|220px|<center>'''[[Buddhas of the Three Times]]''']]</center></td>
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    <td>[[Image:PrajnaParamita.jpg|thumb|250px|<center>'''[[Prajnaparamita]]''' - ([[sher phyin ma]]) - </center><center><BR>{{:sher phyin ma}}</center><center>Guardian Deity of [[The Perfection of Wisdom]] - [[Mother of All Buddhas]]<br>(picture source unknown)</center>]]</td>
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    <td>[[Image:Padmadsat_6.jpg|thumb|230px|<center>'''[[Padmasambhava]] Refuge''']]</center></td>
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--'''Alphabetical Listing:'''<br>
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<center>'''[[A]]''' - '''[[B]]''' - '''[[C]]''' - '''[[D]]''' - '''[[E]]''' - '''[[F]]''' - '''[[G]]''' - '''[[H]]''' - '''[[I]]''' - '''[[J]]''' - '''[[K]]''' - '''[[L]]''' - '''[[M]]''' - '''[[N]]''' - '''[[O]]''' - '''[[P]]''' - '''[[Q]]''' - '''[[R]]''' - '''[[S]]''' - '''[[T]]''' - '''[[U]]''' - '''[[V]]''' - '''[[W]]''' - '''[[X]]''' - '''[[Y]]''' - '''[[Z]]'''</center>
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''''' "It is all right not to know the Tibetan language. As long as you can read, you can absorb the [[Dharma]] terminology, the Buddhist key words. Many learned people have told me that the majority of Buddhist scriptures exist in the Tibetan language. Second is Chinese; after that there is Japanese, Pali, and so forth. Nevertheless, Tibetan is foremost in quantity. Someone who wants to do detailed studies, can study to their heart's delight in the Tibetan medium, without running out of texts".'''''
  
-'''[[B]]''' - '''[[C]]''' - '''[[D]]''' - '''[[E]]''' - '''[[F]]''' - '''[[G]]''' - '''[[H]]''' - '''[[I]]''' - '''[[J]]''' - '''[[K]]''' - '''[[L]]''' - '''[[M]]''' - '''[[N]]''' - '''[[O]]''' - '''[[P]]''' - '''[[Q]]''' - '''[[R]]''' - '''[[S]]''' - '''[[T]]''' - '''[[U]]''' - '''[[V]]''' - '''[[W]]''' - '''[[X]]''' - '''[[Y]]''' - '''[[Z]]''' -
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Quoted from an interview with '''''[[Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche]]''''' '''-''' <span class=TibUni16>[[ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།]]</span>
 
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Abandonment and realization ([[spangs rtogs]]). - A synonym for 'buddhahood' or 'enlightenment.' ([[bla ma'i thugs rgyud kyi spangs rtogs kyi yon tan]]) -- the qualities of freedom and realization of the teacher's wisdom mind [RY]<br><br>
 
Abhidana of the Samvara Tantra -  a tantric text. [RY]<br>
 
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Abbot, the Master, and the Dharma King: are [[Shantarakshita]], [[Padmasambhava]], and [[Trisong Deutsen]]<br>
 
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[[Abhidharma]] -([[chos mngon pa]])-  1) systematic teachings which analyze elements of experience and investigate the nature of existence, thus dispelling wrong views and establishing analytic insight. 2) One of the three parts of the [[Tripitaka]], the Words of the [[Buddha]], the essence of which is prajna, or [[discriminating knowledge]] ([[kun rtogs ye shes]]). 3) Branch of Buddhist literature and practice concerned with the analysis of phenomena into their elementary constituents ([[dharmas]]). 4) Systematic teachings on metaphysics focusing on the training and developing of discriminating knowledge by analyzing elements of experience and investigating the nature of existing things. The chief commentaries on Abhidharma are the [[Abhidharma Kosha]] by [[Dignaga]] from the [[Hinayana]] perspective, and the [[Abhidharma Samucchaya]] by [[Asanga]] from the [[Mahayana]] point of view. Dignaga was a disciple of [[Vasubandhu]].  Vasubandhu was later converted to Mahayana by Asanga. [RY]<br>
 
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[[Abhidharma Kosha]] -([[mngon pa mdzod]])-. An authoritative scripture on Buddhist metaphysics according to Hinayana, composed by the Indian pandita [[Dignaga]]. [RY]<br>
 
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[[Abhidharma Pitaka]] -([[mngon pa'i sde snod]])-. One of The Three Pitakas -([[sde snod gsum]])-, containing the foundation of Buddhist psychology and logic. It describes the universe, the various types of beings, the steps on the path to enlightenment, refutes wrong views and so forth. [RY]<br>
 
 
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[[Abhidharma Samuccaya]] -([[mngon pa kun btus]])-. An authoritative scripture on Buddhist metaphysics according to Mahayana, composed by the Indian [[pandita]] [[Asanga]]. [RY]<br>
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[[Abhisamaya Lamkara]] -([[mngon rtogs rgyan]])- The 'Ornament of Realization' authored by [[Maitreya]] and written down by [[Asanga]]. It explains the paths and [[bhumis]] of the [[bodhisattva vehicle]]. [RY]<br>
 
 
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[[Abhisheka]] -([[dbang bskur]])-. See [[empowerment]]. [RY]<br>
 
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absolute ([[yongs grub]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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absolute ([[yongs grub]]); unchanging ([['gyur med yongs grub]]), expl.; unmistaken ([[phyin ci ma log pa'i yongs grub]]), expl. [LWx] [RY]<br>
 
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[[absolute bodhicitta]] -([[don dam byang chub gyi sems]])- corresponds to the realization of emptiness. The [[relative bodhicitta]] -([[kun rdzob byang chub kyi sems]])- is the wish to attain enlightenment for the sake of others and the putting of this wish into action.
 
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[[Abu]] -(a bu)-. Another name for Paltrul Rinpoche, Jigme Choskyi Wangchuk (1808-87), also known as Dzogchen Palge Tulku. [RY]<br>
 
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[[Acarya]] -([[slob dpon]])- master. [RY]<br>
 
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[[Acceptance]] -([[bzod pa]])- One of the 'four aspects of ascertainment' attained on the path of joining. [RY]<br>
 
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Acceptance of the profound Dharma -([[zab mo'i chos la bzod pa]])- Acceptance of emptiness; that [[dharmas]] are unproduced. [RY]<br>
 
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Acceptance that dharmas are unproduced - ([[mi skye ba'i chos la bzod pa]]) Skt. anutpattika-dharma-ksanti - An important realization gained on entry to the eighth Bodhisattva Stage. [RY]<br>
 
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[[Accomplishment]] -([[dngos grub]], Skt. [[siddhi]])- 1) See '[[supreme and common siddhis]] 2)-([[sgrub pa]])-  See 'four aspects of approach and accomplishment.'. 3) The result of the practice. [RY]<br>
 
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Accomplishment of Means and Knowledge ([[thabs shes grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY] <br>
 
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Accomplishment of Nonduality ([[gnyis med grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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Accomplishment of Secrets ([[gsang ba grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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Accomplishment of Thatness to Clearly Encompass Reality ([[dngos po gsal ba'i rjes su 'gro ba'i de kho na nyid grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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Accomplishment of the Great Secret Thatness ([[gsang ba chen po de nyid grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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Accomplishment of the Innate ([[lhan skyes grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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Accomplishment of Wisdom ([[ye shes grub pa]]) [LW1] [RY]<br>
 
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ACCOMPLISHMENT. 1) ([[dngos grub]]), Skt. [[siddhi]]. The attainment resulting from Dharma practice usually referring to the 'supreme accomplishment' of complete enlightenment. It can also mean the 'common accomplishments,' eight mundane accomplishments such as clairvoyance, clairaudiance, flying in the sky, becoming invisible, everlasting youth, or powers of transmutation. The most eminent attainments on the path are, however, renunciation, compassion, unshakable faith and realization of the correct view. See also 'supreme and common accomplishments.' 2) ([[sgrub pa]]). See also 'approach and accomplishment.'[AL] [RY]<br>
 
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Accumulation of merit ([[bsod nams kyi tshogs]]). Virtuous actions or meditation practice carried out with conceptual mind; for instance, the concepts of oneself, the deed and the purpose. [Bardo Guide 91] [RY]<br>
 
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Accumulation of wisdom ([[ye shes kyi tshogs]]). Virtuous actions embraced by the discriminating knowledge ([[shes rab]]) of insight into emptiness, naked mind free from conceptual thinking.. [RY]<br>
 
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Accumulation(s) ([[tshogs]]). The provisions for journeying along the path of enlightenment. See the 'Accumulations, the two.' [RY]<br>
 
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Accumulations, the two ([[tshogs gnyis]]). The accumulations of merits and of Wisdom-knowledge that one must gather by practicing the Perfections so as to achieve Enlightenment. [RY]<br>
 
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Acharya Lilavajra. One of the Indian mahasiddhas. [RY]<br>
 
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Acharya Nagarjuna ([[slob dpon klu sgrub]]). A great Indian master of philosophy. He was named "Naga Master" because he taught the beings in the naga world and returned with the extensive version of Prajnaparamita left in their safe keeping. [RY]<br>
 
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-A Work in Progress---[[User:Richard|Richard]] 13:03, 21 January 2006 (EST) (EST)[RWB]
 
  
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--(A Work in Progress) --[[User:Richard|Richard]] 04:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)--

Latest revision as of 00:32, 16 April 2009


~~ A Glossary of Buddhist People, Places, and Things...~~

Prajnaparamita - (sher phyin ma) -

ཋེ་ཪངཇུང་ཡེཤེ་Gཨིལྡེད་Pཨལཅེ་ཨོཕ༹་ཌྷརྨིཅ་ཨཱཅཏིབི༹ཏཡ
ཤེར་ཕྱིན་མ།
Guardian Deity of The Perfection of Wisdom - Mother of All Buddhas
(picture source unknown)

~~ The Terms by which These Are Defined ~~

--Alphabetical Listing:

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

"It is all right not to know the Tibetan language. As long as you can read, you can absorb the Dharma terminology, the Buddhist key words. Many learned people have told me that the majority of Buddhist scriptures exist in the Tibetan language. Second is Chinese; after that there is Japanese, Pali, and so forth. Nevertheless, Tibetan is foremost in quantity. Someone who wants to do detailed studies, can study to their heart's delight in the Tibetan medium, without running out of texts".

Quoted from an interview with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche - ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།


Note: To review the images above, their source, more details and availability, please see http://www.thangka.ru/gallery_e.html. Thank you Nick!

(Review other Categories)

--(A Work in Progress) --Richard 04:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)--