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• Bodhicitta  + (a mind directed towards pure and total pre … a mind directed towards pure and total presence, a mind set on enlightenment, bodhichitta, awakened heart, enlightened mind, attitude, the [primordial] state of pure and total presence; enlightened mind. བྱང་ meaning – pure of obscurations and chub meaning perfect in enlightened attributes.meaning perfect in enlightened attributes.)
• Kun gzhi  + (alaya - *. Literally, the 'foundation of a … alaya - *. Literally, the 'foundation of all things.' The basis of mind and both pure and impure phenomena. This word has different meanings in different contexts and should be understood accordingly. Sometimes it is synonymous with buddha nature or dharmakaya, the recognition of which is the basis for all pure phenomena; other times, as in the case of the 'ignorant *,' it refers to a neutral state of dualistic mind that has not been embraced by innate wakefulness and thus is the basis for samsaric experience. alaya 1) *, basis of all, ground-of-all; gathering place, storehouse, ground of all (ordinary/ samsaric) experience; basis of everything, basic nature. 2) abbr. of {kun gzhi'i rnam par shes pa}, {kun gzhi rnam par shes pa} par shes pa}, {kun gzhi rnam par shes pa})
• Dpyad sgom  + (analytic meditation, analytic rational, inspective, investigative, examining, scrutinizing, analytical investigation, the examining meditation.)
• Pratipakṣa  + (antidote, remedy. antidotal technique/corrective measure, cure; opponent, counteragent, antithesis, factors discordant to)
• Tantra  + (being, mind, stream, a) continuity, being … being, mind, stream, a) continuity, being b) Tantra. abbr. རྒྱུད་ Mahayoga.</br></br>1) tantra, tantra-texts, being [body, speech and mind], stream of being, mind-stream, continuity, continuum, "linked together", area, location, stream of existence, mind, heart, nature, existence.</br></br>2) the tantric teachings, texts.</br></br>3) via, through [sm. བརྒྱུད་.</br></br>4) bank, shore, coast, edge, side, range.</br></br>5) lineage, descent.</br></br>6) area, location.</br></br>6) individual, person</br></br>7) bow string མདོ་རྒྱུད་ sutra and tantra].</br></br>8) continuum [or continua], tantra, string, cord. mind-stream; tantra/ continuum; mind-stream</br></br>indirect, [opp to དངོས་ direct] [ggd]</br></br>mind; ex རང་གི་རྒྱུད་ལ་བརྟག་དཔྱད་པ་ examining your own mind</br></br>Stream-of-being, (sems rgyud). The individual continuity of cognition in an individual sentient being. continuity</br></br>tantra/ continuum (of being); mindstream</br></br>tantra. The Vajrayana teachings given by the Buddha in his sambhogakaya form. The real sense of tantra is 'continuity,' the innate buddha nature, which is known as the 'tantra of the expressed meaning.' The general sense of tantra is the extraordinary tantric scriptures also known as the 'tantra of the expressing words.' Can also refer to all the resultant teachings of Vajrayana as a wholeesultant teachings of Vajrayana as a whole)
• Bodhisattva  + (bodhisattva [awakening being]; bodhisattva … bodhisattva [awakening being]; bodhisattva. bodhisattvas. a being on the path of enlightenment, bodhisattva. 'heroic being of enlightenment'</br></br>bodhisattva. Someone who has developed bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. A practitioner of the Mahayana path; especially a noble bodhisattva who has attained the first leveldhisattva who has attained the first level)
• Pratītyasamutpāda  + (dependent origination. The natural law tha … dependent origination. The natural law that all phenomena arise 'dependent upon' their own causes 'in connection with' their individual conditions. The fact that no phenomena appear without a cause and none are made by an uncaused creator. Everything arises exclusively due to and dependent upon the coincidence of causes and conditions without which they cannot possibly appear.without which they cannot possibly appear.)
• Samudānītagotra  + (developed potential; evolved family (trait … developed potential; evolved family (trait); the affinity to be developed; one of {rigs rnam gnyis} the enlightened family of inner growth; the fully expanded potential {rang bzhin gnas rigs} the growing affinity, the enlightened family of extending realizationnlightened family of extending realization)
• Dharmakāya  + (dharmakaya. Definition by Jamgön Kongtrül: sgrib gnyis bag chags dang bcas pa ma lus par spangs pa'i dbyings nam mkha' lta bu zhig la chos kyi sku zhes bya ste Dharma-body, dharmakaya, (body of enlightened qualities))
• Ātman  + (essence, self-entity, identity.)
• Neyārtha  + (expedient meaning. interpretable [ggd]. pr … expedient meaning. interpretable [ggd]. provisional meanings. hinted or provisional meaning. expedient meaning, assumed meaning, interpretable, provisional meaning, requiring interpretation. {'dul bya kha *}; conventional meaning, / conditional meaning/ truthonal meaning, / conditional meaning/ truth)
• Pramāṇa  + (genuine reasoning, འཐད་པ་,་རིགས་པ་ true, … genuine</br></br>reasoning, འཐད་པ་,་རིགས་པ་</br></br>true, proven, genuine; ideal, validity, valid cognition; authentic (standard)/ standard of authenticity; valid cognizer [when related to cognition]; validating; authenticity, validity, proof, pramana, logic, ideal, dialectics, epistemology, valid [cognition / understanding], proof [of knowledge]. three kinds. direct perception མངོན་སུམ་ inference, indirect རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པ་ trustworthy scripture or testimony ཡིད་ཆེས་པའི་ལུང་ the study of pramana [in a monastic college]. authentic, genuine, convincing. right cognition / understanding [free from illusion]. valid source of knowledge, true knowledge, reasoning, འཐད་པ་, རིགས་པ་ There are three pramanas, direct perception, inference and scripture. Sometimes the following three pramanas are discussed, direct མངོན་གྱུར་, hidden ལྐོག་གྱུར་ and very hidden ཤིན་ཏུ་ལྐོག་གྱུར་ The ཤིན་ཏུ་ལྐོག་གྱུར་ pramana has to be known through the Buddha's teaching. reasoning, འཐད་པ་,་རིགས་པ་dha's teaching. reasoning, འཐད་པ་,་རིགས་པ་)
• Dzogchen  + (great perfection, great completeness, Maha … great perfection, great completeness, Mahasandhi great perfection, maha Ati, total completeness, absolute perfection, total natural perfection. Dzogchen, the Great Perfection</br></br>རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ the great perfection approach; great perfection (=nature/ state) [in second case, without definite article]</br></br>Skt. Mahasandhi – Dzogchen, Great Perfectiont. Mahasandhi – Dzogchen, Great Perfection)

• Advaya  + (inseparable, nondual, nonduality, indivisible, not two.)

• Gotra  + (kinds, types (ggd). 1) kinds, varieties, t … kinds, types (ggd). 1) kinds, varieties, types, aspects. 2) caste, bloodline, lineage, extraction, birth, descent, lineage, family, noble, potential, class, gene (spiritual genes), type, category, status. 2) specific spiritual family, Buddha family. 3) Buddha nature. 4) nature. Syn (snying po) 5) reason. 6) certain (in end of sentence) it is certain!. 7) will understand. 8) causal ground. 9) possibility, capability, potential. 10) philosophy. 11) realm. Syn khams. 12) appropriateness. 13) gotra, here "go" comes from guna, quality. "Tra" means to protect. So gotra means to protect the qualities (yon tan skyob pa). protect the qualities (yon tan skyob pa).)
• Niḥsvabhāva  + (no entityness, unreality; lack of inherent existence, realitylessness, non-entityness, essenceless. Syn {rang bzhin med pa}; entitynessless)
• Viparyāsa  + (perverted view, wayward view, misconceptio … perverted view, wayward view, misconception, perverse, of the nature of a perverted view, reverse, perversion; perverted [view], misconception, reverse, in error, perversion, in the wrong direction. Skt. viparyasa, to go completely in the wrong direction / wayward view, misconception, perverse, of the nature of a perverted view, reverse, incorrect, deceptive, fallacious, perversity.orrect, deceptive, fallacious, perversity.)
• Ka dag  + (primordial purity [thd]. primordial purity, primordially pure; *; originally pure, pure from the beginning / first. Primordial purity. The basic nature of sentient beings which is originally untainted by defilement and beyond confusion and liberation)
• Śrāvaka  + (proclaimer shravaka/ hearer of the teachin … proclaimer</br>shravaka/ hearer of the teachings</br>shravaka. 'Hearer' or 'listener.' Hinayana practitioner of the First Turning of the Wheel of the Dharma on the four noble truths who realizes the suffering inherent in samsara, and focuses on understanding that there is no independent self. By conquering disturbing emotions, he liberates himself, attaining first the stage of Stream Enterer at the Path of Seeing, followed by the stage of Once-Returner who will be reborn only one more time, and the stage of Non-returner who will no longer be reborn into samsara. The final goal is to become an Arhat. These four stages are also known as the 'four results of spiritual practice.'</br></br>shravaka, hearer, pious attendants. disciples, hearer of the teachings listener, disciple [of the Buddha]; hearer of the teachings. Expl.: sgra don ni/ gzhan brten thos sgrog nyan thos/ /zhes pa ste/ de'ang legs sbyar skad du/ shra ba ka zhes pa nyan pa dang thos pa gnyis ka la 'jug pas nyan thos zhes bya ba yin te/ bu ddha sangs pa dang rgyas pa gnyis ka la 'jug pas sangs rgyas zhes brjod pa ltar ro/ /rnam pa gcig tu na/ gzhan brten thos sgrog ces pas/ slob dpon gzhan la brten zhing de las thos pa dang yul gzhan la sgrog pas thos sgrog gam nyan thos zhes bya'o</br></br>Shravaka, "listener," a Hinayana follower of the Buddhastener," a Hinayana follower of the Buddha)
• Saṃvṛtisatya  + (relative/ conventional/ superficial truth; conventional truth, apparent reality, deceptive truth; relative truth. one of the {bden pa gnyis} two truths, superficial truth, truth for a concealer; Relative Truth, [samvrittika satya])
• Visaṃyogaphala  + (result of separation from obscuration)
• Svasaṃvedana  + (self-cognizant awareness. self-aware[ness] … self-cognizant awareness. self-aware[ness] [thd]. Self-cognizance. self-cognition, apperception [ggd]. one's own insight; 1) self awareness; aware of oneself; 2) self consciousness (according to Chittamatra), [svasamvedana]; self-cognizing (intrinsic) awareness; [lit.] your mind, inherent cognizance. [one's] self-cognizance. 1) self-known, self-aware, natural awareness, intrinsic awareness, apperception. 2) abr. of {rang byung rig pa} self-existing insight. 3) self knower, proprioceptive, self-consciousness [apperceptive], self-knower, one's mind, one's own insight, insight, my own mind. 4) the absolute truth in Y. comp. {rang gi rig pa}; self-existing awareness {rang gi rig pa}; self-existing awareness)
• Sugatagarbha  + (sugata-essence, enlightened essence, essence for attaining experience of bliss. Sugatagarbha. 'Sugata essence.' The most common Sanskrit term for what in the West is known as 'buddha-nature.')
• Ngo bo  + (svabhava 1) *, nature, character, attribut … svabhava 1) *, nature, character, attribute, identity, entity, intrinsic / central / essential nature, vital substance, core, being, inmost nature. 2) principle, existence, fact. 3) entity, fact of being, identity. 4) definition, main principle. 5) what it comes down to, at bottom, in fact, 5) essential meaning [in textual introduction].sential meaning [in textual introduction].)
• Tathāgatagarbha  + (tathagata-essence, enlightened essence, buddha-nature)
• Trikāya  + (three Bodies [thd]. *. {chos sku}. dharmak … three Bodies [thd]. *. {chos sku}. dharmakaya, {longs spyod rdzogs pa'i sku}. or sambhogakaya, and {sprul pa'i sku}. nirmanakaya. trikaya, the three bodies of the buddha. Three kayas. Dharmakaya, sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya. The * as ground are 'essence, nature, and capacity'; as path they are 'bliss, clarity and nonthought,' and as fruition they are the '* of buddhahood.' The * of buddhahood are the dharmakaya, which is free from elaborate constructs and endowed with the 'twenty-one sets of enlightened qualities;' the sambhogakaya, which is of the nature of light and endowed with the perfect major and minor marks perceptible only to bodhisattvas; and the nirmanakaya, which manifests in forms perceptible to both pure and impure beingsperceptible to both pure and impure beings)