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Bodhisattvas’ ability to remember unfailingly the infinite words and meanings of the Dharma, enabling them to teach for kalpas on end. +
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“He whose accomplishment is related to the nāgas.” The great first-second-century Indian master and father of the Profound View tradition who rediscovered the Buddha’s teachings on transcendent wisdom (prajnāpāramitā) in the realm of the nāgas and composed numerous treatises that became the basic texts for the proponents of the Madhyamika or Middle Way philosophical system. +
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The four results of the Listeners’ Vehicle—namely, stream enterer, once-returner, nonreturner, and arhat, for each of which there are two kinds: those who have entered their respective level (“candidates,” Tib. ''zhugs pa'') and those who are firmly establishedon it (“graduates,” Tib.''bras la gnas pa''),hence the alternative Tibetan term ''zhugs gnas brgyad''. +
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Habitual patterns of thought, speech, or action created by one’s attitudes and deeds in past lives. +
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The consciousnesses of the five senses, together with the mind consciousness, defiled mind consciousness, and the consciousness of the ground of all. +
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See bodhisattva levels. +
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An epithet of the Buddha Śākyamuni, of ten translated as Mighty One. He was called “capable” because, when he was a bodhisattva and there was none who had the courage to tame the most unfortunate beings, with extremely gross views, defilements, and actions, he, our kind teacher, was the only one, of all the 1,002 buddhas of this Excellent Kalpa, who had the strength or capacity to vow to benefit them. +
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Also called the four seals. “All that is compounded is impermanent. All that is tainted is suffering. All phenomena are devoid of self. Nirvāṇa is peace.” +
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lit. “wheel.” Cyclic existence, the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as result of their actions and defilements. +
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The state of nondual wisdom that, while transcending the subject-object duality, knows itself. +
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lit. “one who has vanquished the enemy” (the enemy being defilements). A practitioner of the Lesser Vehicle (that is, a listener or solitary realizer) who has attained the cessation of suffering, i.e., nirvaṇa, but not the perfect buddhahood of the Great Vehicle. +
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Also called complete purity. This term, used in apposition to defilement, covers the truth of cessation and the truth of the path, both the purity that is nirvāṇa and the process of purification that leads to nirvāṇa. It is the opposite of defilement. +
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Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom, together with transcendent means, aspirational prayer, strength, and gnosis. Each of these ten is practiced predominantly on one of the ten bodhisattva levels—generosity on the first level, discipline on the second, and so forth. They are termed “transcendent” because their practice involves realization ofthe view of emptiness. +
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An epithet for a bodhisattva. +
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“Land of the Jambu Tree.” The southern continent in the ancient Indian cosmology, the world in which we live. +
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The Vinaya Collection, Sūtra Collection, and Abhidharma Collection. See also collection. +
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One’s own goal, benefit, or welfare (Tib. ''rang don'') and that of others (Tib. ''gzhan don''). Often understood in the ultimate sense of the goal for oneself being achieved by the realization of emptiness, the body of truth (Skt. ''dharmakāyd''), and the goal for others by compassion manifesting as the form body (Skt. ''rūpakāya''). +
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Śākyamuni, the Buddha of our era. +
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The aspect of buddhahood that manifests out of compassion in all sorts of forms to help ordinary beings. +
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The means for traveling the path to enlightenment. +
