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84000 Glossary
- 'bras bu chos sku
- Fruitional buddha body of reality
- 'dul ba 'di la mi skye ba'i chos can
- One who will not flourish in the Dharma and the Vinaya
- 'dus byas kyi chos
- Conditioned phenomena
- 'dus ma byas pa'i chos
- Unconditioned phenomena
- 'jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- Eight worldly concerns
- 'jig rten las 'das pa'i chos
- Supramundane phenomena
- 'jig rten pa'i chos
- Mundane phenomena, Worldly concerns
- 'jig rten pa'i chos kyi sbyin pa
- Mundane gift of the sacred doctrine
- bar chad kyi chos
- Impediments
- bden pa'i chos grags rgya chen
- Satyadharmavipulakīrti
- byang chub kyi chos sum cu rtsa bdun
- Thirty-seven branches of awakening, Thirty-seven factors of awakening
- byang chub kyi phyogs kyi chos
- Aids to enlightenment, Factors of awakening
- byang chub kyi phyogs kyi chos sum cu rtsa bdun
- Thirty-seven aspects of enlightenment
- byang chub kyi phyogs sum cu rtsa bdun gyi chos
- Thirty-seven aids to enlightenment
- byang chub phyogs kyi chos sum bcu rtsa bdun
- Thirty-seven factors conducive to enlightenment
- byang chub sems dpa'i chos ma 'dres pa bco brgyad
- Eighteen special qualities of a bodhisattva
- chos
- Dharma, Factor, Mental phenomena, Phenomena, Sacred doctrine, Tathāgata Dharma
- chos 'dod
- Dharmakāma, Dharmakāya
- chos 'dul ba
- Teachings of the vinaya
- chos 'dzin
- Dharmadhara
- chos bems pa nyid
- Inanimate nature of phenomena
- chos bkod pa
- Dharmavyūha
- chos bzang
- Sudharma
- chos bzang dpa' bo
- Sudharmaśūra
- chos chen
- Mahādharma
- chos dags
- Dharmarati
- chos dam pa'i phyag rgya
- Seal of the Sacred Doctrine
- chos dkon mchog
- Precious jewel of the Dharma
- chos gnas pa nyid
- Abiding nature of phenomena
- chos gos
- Dharma robe, Religious robe, Robes
- chos gos gsum
- Three Dharma robes
- chos gos kyi las gyis shig
- Ready your Dharma robes
- chos kyi 'khor lo
- Dharma wheel, Twelve wheels of the Dharma
- chos kyi 'khor lo bskor ba
- Turn the doctrinal wheel
- chos kyi 'khor lo bskor ba gnyis pa
- Second promulgation of the doctrinal wheel
- chos kyi 'od zer rab tu rgyas pa'i sku
- Whose Body is the Widely Spreading Light of the Dharma
- chos kyi bla ma
- Dharmottara
- chos kyi blo gros
- Dharmamati
- chos kyi bshes gnyen
- Dharmamitra
- chos kyi cho 'phrul rgyal mtshan shugs kyi dpal
- Dhārmavikurvaṇadhvajavegaśrī
- chos kyi dbang phyug
- Dharmeśvara
- chos kyi dbyings
- Dharmadhātu, Essence of phenomena, Expanse of reality, Realm of phenomena, Sphere of reality, Ultimate realm
- chos kyi dbyings kyi ye shes
- Wisdom of the sphere of phenomena
- chos kyi de bzhin nyid
- Real nature of phenomena
- chos kyi dpal
- Dharmaśrī
- chos kyi gaN dI
- Dharmagaṇḍī
- chos kyi khams
- Element of dharmas, Sensory element of mental phenomena
- chos kyi mdo bzhi
- Four aphorisms of the Dharma
- chos kyi mig
- Dharma-eye, Eye of the sacred doctrine
- chos kyi mnyam pa nyid
- Uniformity of all things... further results
English Glossaries
| Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary 3.0 <br> by Erik Pema Kunsang (2003) | 1) Dharma, reality 2) dharmas, phenomena 3) Dharma, the teaching of the Buddha; 1) dharma, phenomenon, thing, existent, [a truly real predicate, event, entity, element or ultimate constituent of existence]. 2) Dharma, [the Precious Dharma with eight qualities]. Religion. 3) the Dharma, the Teachings, the Doctrine. 4) quality, attribute, property, characteristic, ability. 5) a teaching, doctrine, text, scripture, sacred text. 6) right, virtue, duty, moral law, tenet, precept. 7) truth, order, law. 8) practice, dharma -, religious. 9) mental object, dharma. 10) religion, religious system, way of belief. 11) topic, point, principle. 12) meaning, value, sense, meaning, worth; content. 13) ex. +'chad, +shod, +smra, to preach, give religious teaching, +nyan, to hear, listen to religious teaching, +byed, to practice religion, live a religious life, +zhu, to receive religious instruction, t seek, ask for religious teaching. imp. of 'chos, and 'cha', 14) mind objects, 5 of 16 aspects of the 4 holy truths. one of the phyag rgya bzhi, four mudras; phenomenon; factor/ element; property/ quality/ attribute; spiritual teaching/ Buddhadharma/ dharma; don chos go bar byed pa'i gzhi imp. of 'chos pa; events; can that which has [certain] qualities or attributes, subject [in logic context]. phenomenon, phenomena, Dharma, teachings bsgrub bya'i chos conclusion [to be proven in logic] phenomena, (snang ba). Anything that can be experienced, thought of, or known phenomenon; factor/ element; property/ quality/ attribute/ aspect; spiritual teaching/ Buddhadharma/ dharma/ teaching of the Buddha; idea (mental phenomenon/ event); (spiritual) situation/ circumstances; isc. principle/ tenet predicate of a subject chos can [in logic]; property [as in blo chos mental property and don chos real property] [ggd] |
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| Hopkins Glossary 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | attribute; quality; phenomenon; topic; doctrine; religion; practice; way |
520 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Definitions 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | bearing its own entity |
14 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Divisions 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | No direct match. |
2 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Others' English 2015 The Uma Institute for Tibetan Studies Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Version: June 2015) <br> Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor. <br> Paul Hackett, Contributor and Technical Editor. <br> Contributors: Nathaniel Garson, William Magee, Andres Montano, John Powers, Craig Preston, Joe Wilson, Jongbok Yi <br> A PDF version of this dictionary is available for download at: www.uma-tibet.org | teaching; reality; true nature of things; |
133 total match(es) |
| Hopkins Synonyms 1992 note | No direct match. | 1 total match(es) |
| Tsepak Rigdzin note | Dharma. A. Teachings of Buddha. B. A phenomenon. | 107 total match(es) |
| Richard Barron's glossary Richard Barron's glossary. <br> © Copyright 2002 by Turquoise Dragon Media Services. <br> Source: Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary 3.0 (2003) | bsgrub bya'i chos conclusion [to be proven in logic]. phenomenon; factor/ element; property/ quality/ attribute/ aspect; spiritual teaching/ Buddhadharma/ dharma/ teaching of the Buddha; idea (mental phenomenon/ event); (spiritual) situation/ circumstances; isc. principle/ tenet |
76 total match(es) |
Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary
| ཆོས་ chos |
༡.་འཆོས་པའི་སྐུལ་ཚིག་༢.་༡༽་ཤེས་བྱའམ་དངོས་པོ།་༢༽་ལུགས་སྲོལ།་ཡུལ་ཆོས་བཟང་པོ་རྣམས་སྔར་རྒྱུན་རང་སོར་འཇགས་པ།་༣༽་༼དྷརྨ༽་རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་འཛིན་པའི་དོན་ནོ།་དྷརྨ་ཞེས་དོན་བཅུ་ལ་འཇུག་སྟེ།་འདུས་བྱས་དང་འདུས་མ་བྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ཤེས་བྱ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་དང།་ལམ་བདེན་གྱི་ཆོས་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ལམ་དང།་འགོག་བདེན་གྱི་ཆོས་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་མྱང་འདས་དང།ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཅེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་ཡུལ་དང།་བཙུན་མོའི་འཁོར་དང་གཞོན་ནུ་རྣམས་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཅེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་བསོད་ནམས་དང།་བྱིས་པ་ནི་མཐོང་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པ་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ཚེ་དང།་ཆོས་འདུལ་བ་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་གསུང་རབ་དང།་ལུས་འདི་རྒ་བའི་ཆོས་ཡིན་ནོ་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་འབྱུང་འགྱུར་དང།་དགེ་སྦྱོང་གི་ཆོས་བཞི་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ངེས་པ་དང།་ལྷ་ཆོས་དང་མི་ཆོས་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ལུགས་ལ་འཇུག་པ་བཅས་བཅུ་ཡོད་པར་རྣམ་བཤད་རིག་པ་ལས་གསུངས་ཤིང།་ད་ལྟ་ཡོངས་གྲགས་སུ་ལུགས་དང་གསུང་རབ་དང།་ཤེས་བྱ་བཅས་གསུམ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་གཙོ་ཆེ་བའོ། |
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(Related) Verb Forms
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ཆོས
dharma, elements of existence (general non-critical term), factors of reality, knowable factors, phenomena, mental objects, phenomenal existents, events and meanings, what is experienced, spiritual teachings, truth, message, teaching, doctrine, law, aspects of experience (the range of yid's activity), meaning, qualities, meaning of life, make, build, gnaw off, law, order, sustenance, manifestation, presentation, prepare, make ready, SA 'cha' ba, 'cho ba, 'chos pa, draw up, religious doctrine, religion, particular doctrine, tenet, precept, system of morality, ethics, manner, method, custom, usage, thing, substance, property, 1 of gnas pa dgu, grammatical predicate, topics [JV]
1) 'Chos pa!; 2) knowable, thing; 2) tradition; 3) Dharma [rang gi ngo bo 'dzin pa'i don, dharma w 19 meanings, like conditioned and unconditioned dharmas shes bya, like dharmas of the truth of the path lam, like the dharmas of the truth of cessation nirvana, like chos kyi skye mched mind objects, like btsun mo'i 'khor dang gzhon nu rnams dang lhan cig tu chos spyod ces pa lta bu merit, like byis pa ni mthong ba'i chos la gces par 'dzin pa time, like chos 'dul ba the teachings, like lus 'di rga ba'i chos yin no 'byung 'gyur, like dge sbyong gi chos bzhi nges pa, like lha chos dang mi chos lugs la 'jug pa as taught in rnam bshad rig pa, and well known: lugs dang gsung rab dang, shes bya dharma, phenomenon, thing, existent, truly real predicate, event, entity, element of existence, ultimate constituent of existence) [the] Dharma, religion, quality, attribute, property, characteristic, ability, a teaching, [the genuine awareness of] the doctrine, scripture, [sacred] text, right, virtue, duty, moral law, truth, order, law, practice, mental object, way of belief, topic, point, principle, meaning, value, content imp of 'chos make! create! correct! repair! reform! treat!, and 'cha' ; 5) of 16 aspects of the four holy truths 1 of the phyag rgya bzhi, = four mudras] [IW]
Dharma, phenomena, property [thd]
1) 'Chos pa!; 2) knowable, thing; 2) tradition; 3) Dharma [IW]
1) Dharma, reality 2) dharmas, phenomena 3) Dharma, the teaching of the Buddha; 1) dharma, phenomenon, thing, existent, [a truly real predicate, event, entity, element or ultimate constituent of existence]. 2) Dharma, [the Precious Dharma with eight qualities]. Religion. 3) the Dharma, the Teachings, the Doctrine. 4) quality, attribute, property, characteristic, ability. 5) a teaching, doctrine, text, scripture, sacred text. 6) right, virtue, duty, moral law, tenet, precept. 7) truth, order, law. 8) practice, dharma -, religious. 9) mental object, dharma. 10) religion, religious system, way of belief. 11) topic, point, principle. 12) meaning, value, sense, meaning, worth; content. 13) ex. +'chad, +shod, +smra, to preach, give religious teaching, +nyan, to hear, listen to religious teaching, +byed, to practice religion, live a religious life, +zhu, to receive religious instruction, t seek, ask for religious teaching. imp. of 'chos, and 'cha', 14) mind objects, 5 of 16 aspects of the 4 holy truths. one of the phyag rgya bzhi, four mudras; phenomenon; factor/ element; property/ quality/ attribute; spiritual teaching/ Buddhadharma/ dharma; don chos go bar byed pa'i gzhi]] imp. of 'chos pa; events; can that which has [certain] qualities or attributes, subject [in logic context]. phenomenon, phenomena, Dharma, teachings [RY]
phenomenon; factor/ element; property/ quality/ attribute/ aspect; spiritual teaching/ Buddhadharma/ dharma/ teaching of the Buddha; idea (mental phenomenon/ event); (spiritual) situation/ circumstances; isc. principle/ tenet [RB]
predicate of a subject chos can [in logic]; property [as in blo chos mental property and don chos real property] [ggd] [RY]
bsgrub bya'i chos conclusion [to be proven in logic] [RB]
phenomena, (snang ba). Anything that can be experienced, thought of, or known [RY]
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]
Discussion
dharma. Characterized as that which holds its own essence. The Sanskrit word dharma derives from the root dhar- meaning to hold; hence the common explanation of its etymology: "Because it holds its characteristics, it is called dharma."
Although in English usage, the word dharma generally refers to Buddhist or Hindu religion, the word has a much broader range of meanings in Buddhist philosophy. At its most basic level, it means phenomenon: anything that can be known with any of the six consciousnesses. In this meaning, it is equivalent to knowable, proven basis, and existent.
Dharma also refers to the Buddha dharma, both the path and cessation. In this context, it is often called the True Dharma of the Dharma Jewel.
Dharma also is commonly used to mean a property of a phenomenon. The phenomenon whose property it is, is called a dharma base or chos can. This is how the word is used in logic, where it is a shorthand for the phrase "dharma to prove," or bsgrub bya'i chos--another way to describe the predicate of a syllogism. Although this is the most common instance of such usage, the word dharma--and the related terms dharma base and dharma nature (dharmata)--are used in other contexts as well.
The Indian tradition distinguishes ten meanings of the word dharma. As explained in the Great Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary, 1) Knowables, as in compound and non-compound dharmas; 2) the path, as in the dharma of the truth of path; 3) nirvana, as in the dharma of the truth of cessation; 4) the object of the mind consciousness as in the sense base of dharmas; 5) merit, as in acting on dharmas together with a retinue of queens and youths; 6) life, as in childish beings cherishing the visible dharmas; 7) the scriptures, as in the dharma-vinaya; 8) the source-derived, as in ‘the body is an aging dharma;’ 9) realization, as in the four spiritual dharmas; and 10) tradition, as in divine dharma and human dharma. As the Great Dictionary notes, not all of these usages are common in Tibetan.
In translating the word dharma or chos, it seems reasonable to use the Sanskrit word dharma in all its usages, with phenomenon as an acceptable synonym when it means the knowable. However, care should be taken to use the word dharma in instances where the relationship between dharma, dharma base, dharma nature, and dharma expanse needs to be clearly maintained. In addition, the word phenomenon may have specific implications in Western philosophy which the word dharma does not have; using dharma avoids potential confusion in this arena.
Dharma is often translated as "law," particularly in texts from the East Asian traditions, but it seems unclear how that translation relates to the descriptions of the word dharma preserved in the Tibetan tradition. DKC