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Glossary of Terms
('ti' = Tibetan, 'sk' = Sanskrit)
Alaya (sk): eight consciousness
Bhumi (sk): progressive stages on the bodhisattva path
Bodhichitta (sk): awakened mind or heart
Bodhisattva (sk): awake being
Brahma (sk): the creator of the universe; one of three gods in the Hindu trinity of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
Buddha (sk): the one who has awoken; the awakened one
Buddhadharma (sk): teachings of the Buddha
Champa (ti): loving kindness
Changchup (ti): enlightenment
Chö (ti): teachings; truth
Dag-me (ti): selflessness
De (ti): gone beyond
Dharma (sk): teachings; truth
Dikpa (ti): evil deeds
Drippa (ti): defilements
Drowa (ti): migrators
Dzokchen (ti): great completion
Gendün (ti): community of practitioners
Gewa (ti): virtue
Gom (ti): meditation
Hinayana (sk): small or lesser vehicle or path
Karma (sk): cyclic existence; action; cause and effect
Khorwa (ti): circular;cyclic existence
Klesha (sk): poisonous emotion
Kom (ti): getting to know; getting familiar with
Kündzop (ti): relative or conventional truth
Le (ti): action; cause and effect
Lhakthong (ti): vipashyana; higher view
Madhyamaka (sk): school or philosophy of the middle way
Mahayana (sk): great vehicle or path
Maitri (sk): compassion; loving kindness
Marikpa (ti): not knowing
Migewa (ti): nonvirtue
Möpa (ti): aspiring; wanting
Naga (sk): snake; associated with jewel treasures and knowledge
Nampa (ti): aspect
Namtok (ti): concept; conceptualization
Nangstül netsül (ti): completely joined
Ngotrö (ti): introduction
Ngönsum (ti): direct perception
Ngowo (ti): essence; nature
Nidana(s) (sk): twelve links of dependent arising
Nirvana (sk): going beyond misery
Nyamshak (ti): meditation; absorption
Nya-ngen ledepa (ti): nirvana as peace
Nyingje (ti): compassion; noble heart
Parchen (ti): going across
Phakpa (ti): noble one
Prajna (sk): knowledge
Prajnaparamita (sk): going to the far shore of prajna
Pratyekabuddha (sk): solitary realizer
Rang-rik (ti): self-knowing; self-awareness
Rikpa (ti): to know
Samadhi (sk): meditation; one pointedness
Samsara (sk): circular; cyclic existence
Samten (ti): meditative stabilization; concentration
Sang-gye (ti): to cleanse; to purify; awake
Sangha (sk): community of practitioners
Sem (ti): mundane mind
Semjung (ti): mental factor
Sem-le depa (ti): beyond conventional mind
Shaktipat (Hindu): descent of blessings (roughly equivalent to zap!)
Shamatha (sk): calm abiding; peaceful abiding
Shedra (ti): monastic college
Shel shing rikpa (ti): clear and knowing mind; conventional mind
Sherap (ti): knowledge
Sheshin (ti): awareness; introspection; presently knowing
Shila (sk): discipline
Shi-ne (ti): peaceful abiding
Shinjang (ti): thoroughly processed
Shiva (sk): the god of destruction of ignorance in the Hindu trinity of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
Shravaka (sk): hearer; hinayana practitioner
Shunyata (sk): emptiness
Skandhas (sk): aggregates or heaps
Sönam (ti): merit
Tathagatagarbha (sk): buddha nature
Tharpa (ti): liberation
Thunpa (ti): enlightenment; being one or being in tune; in accord with
Timuk (ti): bewilderment
Tingdzin (ti): meditation
Töndam (ti): ultimate truth
Tön gompa (ti): contemplative meditation
Tonglen (ti): sending and taking; exchanging oneself for another
Tongpanyi (ti): emptiness
Trenpa (ti): mindfulness; recollection; to remember
Trenpa nyershak shi (ti): four close placements of mindfulness
Tsema (ti): valid cognition
Tsolwa (ti): effort
Tsültrim (ti): discipline
Tüdro (ti): to walk bent over; a human behaving as an animal
Vipashyana (sk): awareness; superior insight; higher view
Vishnu (sk): The sustainer; the guardian of dharma in the Hindu trinity of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
Yana (sk): path or vehicle
Yangdak-pe sang-gye (ti): genuine buddhahood
Yeshe (ti): wisdom
Yoga (sk): union
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Calligraphy by Coleen Logan
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