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AS - Asiatische Studien +
AU - Amṛtakaṇikodyotanibandha +
avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明 +
Aṣṭa - Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā +
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BA - The Blue Annals +
BA (Tib) - Deb ther sngon po +
BCA - Bodhicaryāvatāra +
BCAP - Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā +
BCRD - 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/ +
BDRC - Buddhist Digital Resource Center https://www.tbrc.org/ +
BEFEO - Bulletin d'École Française d'Extrême-Orient +
BhK I - Bhāvanākrama I +
BHSD - Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 2 +
BHSG - Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 1 +
bhūmi - A plateau of spiritual development. Skt. भूमि Tib. ས་ +
Bobh - Bodhisattvabhūmi +
bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (''byang'') and "perfected" (''chub''), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt. बोधि Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ Ch. 菩提,悟,覺 +
bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt. बोधिचित्त Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། Ch. 菩提心 +
bodhigarbha - An alternative term for tathāgatagarbha found in early Nyingma sources. Though it is back-translated as ''bodhigarbha'', this term does not seem to be found in Sanskrit sources. However, in other contexts, the Tibetan ''byang chub snying po'' is often used to translate the Sanskrit term ''bodhimaṇḍa'', which is often translated as the "seat of enlightenment." Skt. बोधिगर्भ Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོ་ +
Bodhisattva - 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. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩 +
