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Also dialecticians, polemicists. A term often used pejoratively to refer to individuals who are more concerned with philosophical debate on the intellectual level than with gaining genuine spiritual realization. +
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Also called altruistic attitude. The good heart and unselfish attitude that is an essential aspect of a bodhisattva’s spiritual intent, bodhicitta. +
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The physical acts of killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct; the verbal acts of lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, and meaningless chatter; and the mental acts of covetousness, malice, and wrong view. +
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A synonym for liberation from saṃsāra. +
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In the context of Buddhist literature, a work by an Indian or Tibetan master that comments on the Buddha’s teachings or presents them in condensed or more accessible form. +
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The five psychophysical components into which a person can be analyzed and that together produce the illusion of a self. They are form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors, and consciousness. The term is often used to denote an individual as the basis for imputing a self. +
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This important term, also translated in its adverbial form as “from one instant to the next,” does not, in the context of discussions on impermanence and emptiness, mean simply “short-lived” or “lasting only a moment.” It is used in this text to denote the fact that the existence of all phenomena is made up of a succession of moments or instants that cease as soon as they arise. This succession of instants makes it possible for things to change from one moment to the next. Depending on the degree to which these changes are perceptible, things appear to last for smaller or greater lengths of time, and even to give the illusion of being permanent. +
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A synonym for the arhat’s nirvāṇa, the peace of cessation. +
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Generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom. +
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A branch of the Great Vehicle that uses the special techniques of the tantras to pursue the path of enlightenment for all beings more rapidly. Because these practices are based on the realization of the diamond like nature of the mind, this vehicle is also known as the Diamond Vehicle. +
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The enlightenment of the listeners, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas. +
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Also called Excellent Speech. The words of the Buddha, the teachings that he gave. +
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That aspect of the teachings and practice, based on the Buddha’s second turning of the wheel of the Dharma and the teachings of Nāgārjuna and his followers, that stress the profound view of emptiness. See also extensive aspect. +
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The hell in which the very worst suffering is experienced, for incalculable periods of time. +
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The twelve types of teaching given by the Buddha, corresponding to twelve kinds of text: condensed (Tib. ''mdo sde'', Skt. sūtra), melodious (''dbyangs bsnyan, geya''), prophetic (''lung bstan, vyākaraṇa''), verse (''tshigs bcad, gāthā''), spoken with a purpose (''ched brjod, udāna''), contextual (''gleng gzhi, nidāna''—questions, talks, etc.), concerning his past lives (''skyes rab, jātaka''), marvelous (''rmad byung, adbhuta-dharma''), establishing a truth (''gtan babs, upadeśa''), biographical or “expressing realization” (''rtogs brjod, avadāna''), historical (''de ltar byung, itivṛittaka''), and very detailed (''shin tu rgyas pa, vaipulya''). +
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(1) An incantation or long mantra. (2.) A bodhisattva’s power of retention, often paired with eloquence, enabling them to teach the Dharma. +
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The ground consciousness that is the basis for the other consciousnesses and in which the habitual tendencies are stored. +
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The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
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lit. “individual liberation.” The collective term for the different forms of Buddhist ordination and the irrespective vows, as laid down in the Vinaya. +
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A person practicing a spiritual path. +
