Guṇa
| Key Term | guṇa |
|---|---|
| Topic Variation | enlightened qualities |
| Hover Popup Choices | enlightened qualities |
| In Tibetan Script | ཡོན་ཏན་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | yon tan |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script | गुण |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | yönten |
| Chinese Script | 功德 |
| Chinese Pinyin | gōng dé |
| Japanese Transliteration | kudoku |
| Korean Transliteration | kongdok |
| English Standard | enlightened qualities |
| Richard Barron's English Term | enlightened/ positive quality/ property |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | good qualities |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being. |
| Definitions | |
| Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | See page 336: In Sanskrit and Päli, lit. “string,” or “strand,” by extension a “quality” or “spiritual virtue.” |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo | 1) rig gnas shes pa'i khyad chos/ ... yon tan khyad par can/ ... yon tan gyi nus pa/ ... yon tan slob pa/ ... yon tan sbyong ba/ ... yon tan la mnga' brnyes pa/ ... dran rgya che yang yon tan chung ba/ ... yon tan yod kyang med mdog byed pa/ ... yon tan yod pas ma spyad na/ zhing la so nam ma byas 'dra/ ... 2) (mngon) rdul dang/ mun pa/ snying stobs kyi yon tan gsum yod pas grangs gsum mtshon/ ... |