Prabhāsvaratā

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Key Term prabhāsvara
In Tibetan Script འོད་གསལ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration 'od gsal
Devanagari Sanskrit Script प्रभास्वर
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering ösel
Chinese Script 光明
Chinese Pinyin guāng míng
Japanese Transliteration kōmyō
Korean Transliteration kwangmyŏng
English Standard luminosity
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term clear light
Dan Martin's English Term luminosity
Ives Waldo's English Term luminous clarity
Term Type Noun
Source Language Sanskrit
Related Terms Prabhāsvaracitta
Definitions
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism See page 653: In Sanskrit, “luminous,” “resplendent”; referring to an effulgence of light and often used as a metaphor for either deep States of meditation or, especially, the nature of the mind.