སངས་རྒྱས

/saŋ˥˥.cɛː˥˨/

Calque of Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “Buddha; awakened”), from སངས (sangs, “purified; cleansed”) + རྒྱས (rgyas, “extended; fully grown; spread”), literally “the awakened-blossomed one”, meaning that the Buddha has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and spread his mind to all objects of knowledge.


བྱང་ཆུབ

/t͡ɕʰaŋ˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˨/

བྱང (byang, “purified, perfected”) + ཆུབ (chub, “pervasively realized”).

compound

(religion) awakening, enlightenment, bodhi


བྱམས་པ

/t͡ɕʰam˩˨ pa˥˥/


སྡུག་བསྔལ

/tu˩˨.ŋɛː˥˥/


སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱད

སྡུག་བསྔལ (sdug bsngal) + བརྒྱད (brgyad)

(Buddhism) the "eight sufferings" (Dukkha#Eight types)


ཚོགས་ཞིང

ཚོགས (tshogs, “accumulation (of merit)”) + ཞིང (zhing, “field, region”)


བར་དོ

→ English: bardo

(Buddhism) An intermediate or in-between state in the cycle of death and rebirth, often portrayed as a place in which the soul resides between death and being reborn into the world; bardo, limbo.


དགེ་སློང

Classical Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠯᠦᠩ (gelüng)

Khalkha Mongolian: гэлэн (gelen)

Kalmyk: гелң (gelñ)


རྒྱལ་བ

(Buddhism) victorious one (epithet of the Buddha)


གཏེར་མ

(Buddhism) A terma, a hidden teaching (or on occasion religious object).


གཏེར་སྟོན

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གཏེར་སྟོན • (gter ston)

From གཏེར (gter, “treasure”) + སྟོན (ston, “reveal”).

compound

(Buddhism) A tertön, a Buddhist master who discoveries hidden texts.


བོན

From འབོད ('bod, “to call; to shout”) (Zhang, 2009). Possibly related to བོད (bod, “Tibet”) as well (Lalou, 1958).

(religion) Bon, an indigenous religious tradition of Tibet.


གྲྭ་པ

/ʈ͡ʂʰa˩˧˨.paˑ/

གྲྭ (grwa) + པ (pa, “nominalization suffix”)

གྲྭ་པ་མེད་པའི་མཁན་པོ་


དགེ་འདུན

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དགེ་འདུན • (dge 'dun)

From དགེ (dge, “virtuous, good”) + འདུན ('dun, “intention, aspiration”).


ཆོས་འཁོར

(Buddhism) dharmachakra, dharma wheel, wheel of life


རྣ་བའི་དབང་པོ

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རྣ་བའི་དབང་པོ

A translation of Sanskrit श्रोत्रेन्द्रिय (śrotrendriya, “sense or organ of hearing”). The Chinese equivalent is 耳根 (ěrgēn).

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श्रोत्रेन्द्रिय

(Buddhism) “ear or hearing faculty”, one of the six sensory faculties


མཁན་པོ

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→ Chinese: 堪布 (kānbù)
→ Middle Mongol: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
Buryat: хамба (xamba)
Mongolian: хамба (xamba)

/kʰɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Inherited from Old Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po), calqued from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya).

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(Tibetan Buddhism) khenpo (degree for higher Buddhist studies given in Tibetan Buddhism)


མཆོད་རྟེན

→ English: chorten

/t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.tẽ˥˥/

མཆོད (mchod, “to offer; to worship”) + རྟེན (rten, “seat; temple”).


ཕུར་བ

(Buddhism) A kind of ritual dagger, the kīla.


བླ་རི

(Buddhism) The hill or mountain on which one's soul rests after one dies.


སྒྲུབ་ཐབས

/ʈ͡ʂup̚˩˨.tʰəp̚˥˨/

སྒྲུབ (sgrub, “to accomplish”) + ཐབས (thabs)

(religion) sadhana, means of accomplishment


ཡི་དམ

→ English: yidam

(Buddhism) yidam (a type of deity associated with tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or enlightened mind)


ལེན་པ

(Buddhism) grasping, strong desire, clinging to life


བདེ་བ་ཅན

→ Mongolian: диваажин (divaažin)


འཁོར་བ

(Buddhism) samsara, the cycle of powerless birth, aging, sickness, and death


དགེ་སློང་མ

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Classical Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠯᠣᠩᠮᠠ (gelongm-a)

Khalkha Mongolian: гэлэнмаа (gelenmaa)


བསྟན་པ

/tɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/

(Buddhism) doctrine (a single doctrine, or a whole system of doctrines)


ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པའི་དགའ་བ

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ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པའི་དགའ་བ • (lhan cig skyes pa'i dga' ba)

lhan cig skyes pa'i dga' ba (romanization)

सहजानन्द सहजानन्द#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) Innate bliss, innate joy, co-emergent joy (joy that is co-emergent with being itself), Sanskrit सहजानन्द (sahajānanda)

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དགའ་བཞི

(Buddhism) The four joys (joy, supreme joy, transcendent joy, and innate joy)


ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ

ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་མ • (shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ma)

shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ma (romanization)

(Buddhism) Prajñāpāramitā (the Perfection of Wisdom personified)

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ཚད་མེད་བཞི

अप्रमाण अप्रमाण#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) The four immeasurable attitudes (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity), Sanskrit अप्रमाण (apramāṇa), Pali appamaññā


མི་གཡོ་བ

(Buddhism) The deity Acala ("Immovable"), Sanskrit अचल (acala)


ཤེས་རབ

(Buddhism) the female partner in sexual yoga


ལོངས་སྦྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ

ལོངས་སྦྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ • (longs sbyod rdzogs pa'i sku)

longs sbyod rdzogs pa'i sku (romanization)

संभोगकाय संभोगकाय#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) Body of bliss, enjoyment body, Sanskrit संभोगकाय (saṃbhogakāya), one of the three bodies of a Buddha, the second mode or aspect of the Trikaya

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བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས

भगवान् भगवान्#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) Bhagavan, blessed one, lord, buddha, Sanskrit भगवान् (bhagavān)


རྡོ་རྗེ་དབྱིངས

རྡོ་རྗེ་དབྱིངས • (rdo rje dbyings)

वज्रधातु वज्रधातु#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) Vajra realm, immutable basic space (the experiental sphere of nonduality), Sanskrit वज्रधातु (vajradhātu)


རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ

རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ • (rdo rje sems dpa')

वज्रसत्त्व वज्रसत्त्व#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) the deity Vajrasattva, Sanskrit वज्रसत्त्व (vajrasattva)


བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ

བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ • (bcom ldan 'das rdo rje sems dpa')

bcom ldan 'das rdo rje sems dpa' (romanization)

(Buddhism) Lord Vajrasattva, Bhagavan Vajrasattva

en-བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ-bo-noun-W1Ho9LJm


རྡོ་རྗེ་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་མ

རྡོ་རྗེ་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་མ • (rdo rje dbyings kyi dbang phyug ma)

rdo rje dbyings kyi dbang phyug ma (romanization)

वज्रधात्वीश्वरी वज्रधात्वीश्वरी#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) consort of Candamaharosana, goddess of the Vajra realm, Sanskrit वज्रधात्वीश्वरी (vajradhātvīśvarī)

en-རྡོ་རྗེ་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་མ-bo-noun-npZQtDQu


ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན

समाधि समाधि#Sanskrit

(Buddhism) meditative absorption, Sanskrit समाधि (samādhi)


ལྟ་སྟངས

ལྟ (lta, “see”) + སྟངས (stangs, “method, way”)


ཐུགས་རྗེ

From ཐུགས (thugs) + རྗེ (rje); parallel to its non-honorific plain form.

(honorific, Buddhism) compassion, karuṇā


སྙིང་རྗེ

/ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

From སྙིང (snying, “mind, heart”) + རྗེ (rje, “lord”); compare the semantic development of Chinese 仁 (rén).


བཟང་ངན

/saŋ˩˨.ŋɛ̃ˑ/


བཟང་ཞན

/saŋ˩˨.ɕɛ̃ˑ/


ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ

(buddhism) dharmachakra, the wheel of Dharma


ཞེན་འཛིན

(buddhism) attachment, desire, clinging to, fixation


ཆོས་འཁོར་དང་དོན་གཅིག

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ཆོས་འཁོར་དང་དོན་གཅིག • (chos 'khor dang don gcig)

From ཆོས་འཁོར (chos 'khor) + དང (dang) + དོན (don) + གཅིག (gcig).

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(Buddhism) dharmachakra, the wheel of dharma

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བསམ་པའི་སྟོབས

(Buddhism) the power of reflection, one of the ten powers of Bodhisattvas


ལྷག་མཐོང

/ɬa(k̚)ˀ˥˥.tʰoŋ˥˥/

(Buddhism) vipassana, clear seeing, insight, special insight


རྫོགས་ཆེན

/t͡soŋ˩˨.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/


སྙོམས་འཇུག

(Buddhism) meditative absorption, equilibrium, concentration, equanimity


དགའ་འཁྱིལ

(Tibetan buddhism) gankyil, ānanda-cakra, wheel of joy


ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ

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ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ • (yid bzhin nor bu)

Calque of Sanskrit चिन्तामणि (cintāmaṇi), from चिन्ता (cintā) + मणि (maṇi).

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(Tibetan Buddhism) the wish-fulfilling gem


ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས

/t͡sʰyː˥˥.ʈ͡ʂʰim˥˥/

(Buddhism) code of conduct, precept, monastic discipline


དམྱལ༌བ༌

དམྱལ ་བ་ (canonical)
dmyal ba (romanization)

(Buddhism) hell realm, the lowest level of cyclical existence occupied by sentient beings


ལྟུང་བ

(religion) sin, infraction, fault, downfall


ཁ་བྱང

/kʰa˥˥.t͡ɕaŋˑ/

(Buddhism) prophetic guide, entrance authorization to a terma


རིང་བསྲེལ

/ʐiŋ˩˧˨.seː˥˥/


འགོང་པོ

(Buddhism) a class of demon or evil spirit, believed to be involved in illness


ཐེ་བྲང

(religion) a type of low-ranking sky-going preta demon that attacks and possesses children


ཐེའུ

More common form of Tibetan ཐེ (the). Likely from ཐེ (the) + ེའུ (e'au, diminutive suffix).

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ཐེའུ་རང ཐེའུ་རང#Tibetan

(religion) Alternative form of ཐེའུ་རང (the'u rang, “type of demon”)