Glossary

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स्थाप्यभावना

འཇོག་སྒོམ་

Basic Meaning:

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

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Tibetan Noun

AA

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Basic Meaning:

Abhisamayālaṃkāra

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Abbreviation

AAvivṛti

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Basic Meaning:

Abhisamayālaṃkāravivṛti

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AAvṛtti

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Basic Meaning:

Abhisamayālaṃkāravṛtti

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AAĀ

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Basic Meaning:

Abhisamayālaṃkārālokā

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AK

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Basic Meaning:

Abhidharmakośakārikā

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AKBh

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Basic Meaning:

Abhidharmakośabhāṣya

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AKVy

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Basic Meaning:

Abhidharmakośavyākhyā

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AMS

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Basic Meaning:

Aṅgulimālīyasūtra

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AOH

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Basic Meaning:

Acta Orientalia (Budapest)

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AP

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Basic Meaning:

Asian Philosophy

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ARIRIAB

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Basic Meaning:

Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University

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AS

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Basic Meaning:

Asiatische Studien

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AU

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Basic Meaning:

Amṛtakaṇikodyotanibandha

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AkṣN

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Basic Meaning:

Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra

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Anuyoga

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अनुयोग

ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག

Basic Meaning:

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.

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Sanskrit School

Atiyoga

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अतियोग

ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག, ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར།

Basic Meaning:

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.

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Sanskrit School

Aṣṭa

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Basic Meaning:

Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā

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Abbreviation

BA

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Basic Meaning:

The Blue Annals

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BA (Tib)

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Basic Meaning:

Deb ther sngon po

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BCA

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Basic Meaning:

Bodhicaryāvatāra

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BCAP

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Basic Meaning:

Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā

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BCRD

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Basic Meaning:

The Buddhist Canons Research Database a project of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS) and the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies (CCBS) http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/

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BDRC

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Basic Meaning:

Buddhist Digital Resource Center https://www.tbrc.org/

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BEFEO

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Basic Meaning:

Bulletin d'École Française d'Extrême-Orient

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BHSD

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Basic Meaning:

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 2

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BHSG

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Basic Meaning:

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 1

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BPPB

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Basic Meaning:

Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica

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BSOAS

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Basic Meaning:

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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BhK I

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Basic Meaning:

Bhāvanākrama I

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Bobh

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Basic Meaning:

Bodhisattvabhūmi

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Abbreviation

Bodhisattva

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बोधिसत्त्व

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།

菩薩

Basic Meaning:

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

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Sanskrit Noun

Brahman

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ब्रह्मन्

ཚངས་པ།

Basic Meaning:

Brahman is the universal principle, supreme truth or ultimate reality in the Hindu religion considered to be absolute, eternal and blissful. A metaphysical concept, it is described as the single binding unity behind the diversity of all that exists. In Buddhism, while this metaphysical principle is not presented, one finds frequent mention of the deity named Brahmā, who is the personification of this principle.

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Sanskrit Noun

CAJ

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Basic Meaning:

Central Asiatic Journal

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CNRS

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Basic Meaning:

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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CSS

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Basic Meaning:

Catuḥstavasamāsārtha

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Caturmudrā

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Basic Meaning:

Caturmudrāviniścaya

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Abbreviation

Cittamātra

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चित्तमात्र

སེམས་ཙམ་

Basic Meaning:

Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna.

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Sanskrit Noun

CŚT

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Basic Meaning:

Bodhisattvayogācāracatuḥśatakaṭīkā

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DIR

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Basic Meaning:

Dhāraṇīśvararājasūtra

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DNZ

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Basic Meaning:

The Treasury of Precious Instructions Cataloging Project: Tsadra Foundation's Treasury of Precious Instructions cataloging project includes the full text of all eighteen volumes of the Shechen Publications edition of Jamgon Kongtrul's gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod. http://dnz.tsadra.org/

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DSBC

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Basic Meaning:

Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon, a project of the University of the West http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/575/2687

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DhDhS

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Basic Meaning:

Dharmadhātustava

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DhDhV

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Basic Meaning:

Dharmadharmatāvibhāga

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DohaPañj

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Basic Meaning:

Dohakośapañjikā

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Abbreviation

Dzogchen

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महासन्धि

རྫོགས་ཆེན།

Basic Meaning:

Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition.

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Tibetan Noun

EA

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Basic Meaning:

Etudes Asiatiques

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GCBS

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Basic Meaning:

Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies

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GRETL

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Basic Meaning:

Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/

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GV

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Basic Meaning:

Gaṇḍavyūha

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