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A Ä B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Ü U V W Y Z alles
| Deutsch | Englisch | Definition (Teilweise Englisch) | Tibetisch / Sanskrit / Pali |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gabe / Opfer der ureigensten Natur der Realität | offering of the very nature of reality | Offering of a nonconceptual cognition of voidness with a blissful awareness or of one's nonconceptual blissful cognition of voidness together with one's appearance as an illusory body. | Tib.: de-kho-na-nyid mchod-pa |
| Gabe / Opfergabe | offering | Something presented, with respect and the intention to bring happiness and benefit, to someone else. | Tib.: mchod-pa |
| Gabe / Opfergabe, äußere | offering, outer | See: outer offerings | |
| Gabe / Opfergabe, innere | offering, inner | See: inner offering | |
| Gabe / Opfergabe des Samadhi | offerings of samadhi | See: offerings of absorbed concentration | |
| Gabe / Opfergaben der tiefen Konzentration | offerings of absorbed concentration | Offerings made of various aspects of one's Dharma practice, visualized in the form of the outer offerings. Also called: offerings of samadhi. | Tib.: ting-nge-'dzin-gyi mchod-pa |
| Gebet der Aspiration | aspirational prayer | Ein Gebet zum Erlangen eines spirituellen Zieles oder für das Erlangen der Umstände, die förderlich sind, um das Ziel zu erreichen. | Tib.: smon-lam Skt.: pranidhana |
| Geduld | patience | (1) In Theravada, the mental factor of not becoming angry at others' shortcomings, mistakes, or cruel deeds. (2) In Mahayana, the mental urge that leads one to be unperturbed by those who do harm and by suffering, so that one never becomes angry. When conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, patience becomes a far-reaching attitude. | Tib.: bzod-pa Skt.: kshanti |
| Gefühl der körperlichen und geistigen Leistungsfähigkeit | sense of physical and mental fitness | See: sense of fitness | |
| Gefühl der Leistungsfähigkeit | sense of fitness | The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of feeling totally fit to do something, and which is both exhilarating and blissful, physically and mentally, but in a nondisturbing way. | Tib.: shin-sbyangs |
| Gegengötter | antigods | See: would-be divine | |
| geheimes Mandala | secret mandala | The offering of a blissful awareness, or of a nonconceptual blissful awareness of voidness with a clear-light mind. Also called: hidden mandala. | Tib.: gsang-ba'i dkyil-'khor |
| geheimes Opfer | secret offering | See: hidden offering | |
| Geist | mind | The cognitive activity of merely giving rise to an appearance or mental hologram of something knowable and cognitively engaging with it. | Tib.: sems Skt.: chitta |
| Geist, der sie aufnimmt / der sie im Geist hält | objects taken and minds that take them | See: consciousness that takes objects and objects taken by consciousness | |
| Geist, gelassen beruhigter und zur Ruhe gekommener | mind, serenely stilled and settled | See: stilled and settled state of mind | |
| Geist, nicht erfindender | mind, noncontriving | See: noncontriving mind | |
| Geist, ursprünglicher | mind, primordial | See: primordial mind | |
| Geist des Klaren Lichts | clear light mind | See: clear light awareness | |
| Geist des klaren Lichts, tatsächlicher | clear light mind, actual | See: actual clear light mind | |
| Geistesfaktor | mental factor | See: subsidiary awareness | |
| Geisteshaltung, störende | attitude, disturbing | See: disturbing attitude | |
| Geisteshaltung, verzerrte, feindselige | attitude, distorted antagonistic | See: distorted antagonistic thinking | |
| Geisteshaltung / geistige Einstellung | attitude | Ein Geistesfaktor, der ein kognitives Objekt erfasst, indem er es von einem bestimmten Standpunkt aus betrachtet. | Tib.: blo |
| Geisteshaltungen, weitreichende | attitude, far-reaching | See: far-reaching attitude | |
| Geisteskräfte, benennbare, mit oder ohne feste Form | mental faculties, nameable, with or without gross form | See: nameable mental faculties with or without gross form | |
| Geistesstrom | mind-stream | See: mental continuum | |
| Geistestraining | mind-training | See: attitude-training | |
| Geisteszustand, still gewordener und zur Ruhe gekommener | mind, stilled and settled state of | See: stilled and settled state of mind | |
| Geisteszustand von außergewöhnlicher Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit | exceptionally perceptive state of mind | A state of mind that, in addition to being stilled and settled (shamatha), is accompanied by an additional sense of fitness -- the subsidiary awareness of feeling totally fit to discern and understand fully the subtle details of anything. Vipashyana is not necessarily focused on voidness or on the four noble truths, although most commonly in sutra it is. Other translators render the term as "special insight." | Tib.: lhag-mthong Skt.: vipashyana |
| Geisteszustand von außergewöhnlicher Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit | mind, exceptionally perceptive state of | See: exceptionally perceptive state of mind | |
| geistig Aufnehmen | taking to mind | See: attention | Tib.: yid-la byed-pa |
| geistige Ableitung | mental derivative | (A) In Gelug, except in the case of Chittamatra and Yogachara Svatantrika: (1) In sensory nonconceptual cognition, a fully transparent appearing object, which is a mental aspect, similar to a mental hologram of an external objective entity, through which that external entity is directly cognized also as an appearing object of the cognition. (2) In conceptual cognition, a static conceptual category that is mentally constructed from all individual objective entities that fit into it and thus is a semitransparent, static, metaphysical entity. It is the appearing object through which a fully transparent mental representation of a specific objective entity is cognized. (B) In non-Gelug, except in the case of Chittamatra: (1) In sensory nonconceptual cognition, the opaque, directly cognized appearing object, which is a mental aspect similar to a mental hologram of an external objective entity that the cognition indirectly cognizes as its focal object, but not as an additional appearing object. (2) In conceptual cognition, a conceptually isolated item, an opaque metaphysical entity that stands for the mentally synthesized commonsense object and category in the cognition and which is the appearing object of the cognition. | Tib.: gzugs-bsnyan Skt.: pratibimba |
| geistige Abschweifung / Abschweifung | mental wandering | A subsidiary awareness (mental factor) that causes the mind to lose concentration and to go on and on, uncontrollably from one object to another, due to any reason. | Tib.: rnam-g.yeng |
| geistige Aktivität, subtilste | mind, subtlest | See: clear light awareness | |
| Geistige Aktivität des klaren Lichts | clear light mental activity | See: clear light awareness | |
| geistige Artsynthese | kind mental synthesis | The type of phenomenon that a specific individual item is an instance of, such as "a table" imputed on a specific instance of something having legs and a flat surface. This is equivalent to the conventional identity of something. | Tib.: rigs-spyi |
| geistige Artsynthese | mental synthesis, kind | See: kind mental synthesis | |
| geistige Beständigkeit | mental constancy | See: mental stability | |
| geistige Darstellung / geistige Repräsentation | mental representation | Something that appears in a conceptual cognition. (1) In Gelug, a static, fully transparent conceptually isolated item through which the cognition cognizes the external object that the hologram resembles; equivalent to a mental aspect. (2) In non-Gelug, a static, partially transparent mentally synthesized commonsense object and category through which the cognition cognizes a conceptually isolated item (a mental aspect) that stands for a commonsense object. | Tib.: snang-ba |
| geistige Fabrikation | mental fabrication | An appearance of truly established existence that mental activity in a conceptual cognition produces and projects due to the habits of grasping for truly established existence. | Tib.: spros-pa Skt.: prapanca |
| geistige Flatterhaftigkeit | mental flightiness | See: flightiness of mind | |
| geistige Konstrukte | mental construct | See: mental fabrication | |
| geistige Objektsynthese | mental synthesis, object | See: object mental synthesis | |
| geistige Objektsynthese | object mental synthesis | (1) The conceptual category of a commonsense object, such as a table, used when thinking of, verbalizing, imagining (visualizing), or remembering a commonsense object. (2) A specific commonsense object as a conceptual category into which fit all moments of anyone's mental or sensory cognition of any amount of parts of any of its sensibilia. | Tib.: don-spyi |
| geistiger Drang / geistiger Antrieb | mental urge | The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) that causes the mental activity to face an object or to go in its direction. In general, it moves a mental continuum to cognitively take an object. It is equivalent to mental karma and, according to Sautrantika, Chittamatra, Svatantrika-Madhyamaka, and the non-Gelug Prasangika-Madhyamaka schools, it is equivalent to physical and verbal karmas as well. | Tib.: sems-pa Skt.: cetana |
| geistiger Impuls | mental impulse | See: karma | |
| geistiger Körper | mental body | The type of body that arhats in pure lands have. See: forms of physical phenomena having the functional nature of mind. | Tib.: yid-lus |
| geistige Ruhe | mental quiescence | See: stilled and settled state of mind | |
| geistige Sammelsynthese | collection mental synthesis | Mit dem Begriff geistige Sammelsynthese wird ein Ganzes bezeichnet, das auf räumliche, sinnliche und/oder zeitliche Teile zugeschrieben wird. | Tib.: tshogs-spyi |
| geistige Sammelsynthese | mental synthesis, collection | See: collection mental synthesis | |
| geistiges Bewusstsein | mental consciousness | A primary consciousness that can take any existent phenomenon as its object and which relies on merely the previous moment of cognition as its dominating condition and not on any physical sensors. | Tib.: yid-kyi rnam-shes Skt.: manovijnana |
| geistiges Bezeichnen / geistiges Zuschreiben | mental labeling | "Geistige Bezeichnen" (Benennen) oder "geistiges Zuschreiben" bezeichnet den Vorgang, bei dem einer Grundlage (wie z.B.: vier Beinen und einem sich darauf befindlichem flachen Brett), mittels der konzeptuellen Wahrnehmung, eine Audiokategorie (wie z.B. das Wort oder der Name "Tisch") oder die Bedeutung / Objekt-Kategorie (wie z.B. "Tisch" als ein individuelles Objekt) zugeschrieben wird. | Tib.: ming 'dogs-pa |
| geistiges Erscheinungsbild | mental aspect | A nonstatic mental hologram, asserted by all Indian Buddhist tenet systems other than Vaibhashika, that is a likeness of an object of cognition, and which both conceptual and nonconceptual mental activity produces in order to cognize the object; the "mental shape" of the appearing object of a cognition. (1) According to Gelug, except in the case of Chittamatra and Yogachara Svatantrika, they are fully transparent so that through them, one directly cognizes external objects. (2) According to non-Gelug, they are opaque and thus allow only indirect cognition of external objects. | Tib.: rnam-pa Skt.: akara |
| geistiges Festhalten | mental hold | The aspect of a cognition that describes the level of strength of maintenance of attention on the focal object, without letting go of it. Also translated as "mental glue," it is established by the subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of mindfulness and has two aspects: mental abiding and appearance-making. | Tib.: 'dzin-cha |
| geistiges Fixieren | mental fixation | The mental factor (subsidiary awareness) of maintaining mental placement on any object of cognition taken by any type of cognition, including sensory cognition. Also called "mentally fixating" and "concentration," it accompanies all cognitions and varies in intensity from very weak to very strong. When perfected, it becomes "absorbed concentration." | Tib.: ting-nge-'dzin Skt.: samadhi |
| geistiges Kontinuum | mental continuum | The stream of continuity of mental activity (mind, awareness) of an individual being, which has no beginning, which continues even into Buddhahood, and, according to Mahayana, has no end. According to the Hinayana tenets, it comes to an end when an arhat or Buddha dies at the end of the lifetime in which the person attains liberation or enlightenment. Also called a "mind-stream." | Tib.: sems-rgyud Skt.: santana |
| geistige Spiegelung / geistige Wiederspiegelung | mental reflection | See: mental derivative | |
| geistige Stabilität | mental stability | Single-pointed placement of the mind on any constructive focal object, without any mental wandering -- a stable state of mind that is not only free of flightiness and dullness, but is also not distracted by any disturbing emotion of the plane of sensory desires. In Mahayana, when conjoined with bodhichitta, a far-reaching attitude. Some translators render the term as "concentration." | Tib.: bsam-gtan Skt.: dhyana |
| geistige Synthese | mental synthesis | The imputation of a conceptual category in which the bases for imputation are the individual sensibilia of a commonsense object, the parts of any of the sensibilia of a commonsense object, the moments in the continuum of a commonsense object, or items sharing a common defining characteristic. Synonymous with "conceptual category" and "category." | Tib.: spyi |
| geistige Trägheit | mental dullness | A mental factor (subsidiary awareness) faulting the appearance-making of mindfulness's mental hold on an object of focus. Some translators render the term as "sinking." | Tib.: bying-ba |
| geistige Umnebelung | foggy-mindedness | The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of a heavy feeling of body and mind that makes the mind unclear, unserviceable, and incapable either of giving rise to a cognitive appearance of its object or of apprehending the object correctly. | Tib.: rmugs-pa |
| geistig Fixieren | mentally fixating | See: mental fixation | |
| geistig konstruierte Synthese | mentally constructed synthesis | See: mental synthesis | |
| geistig weitreichend, weitreichend-gesonnen | vast-minded | An adjective used to describe a Mahayana practice, practitioner, person, aim, or motivation. It implies something that involves a mind that is aimed at the vastest goal (enlightenment) for the vastest number of beings (everyone). | |
| Geist selbst, der | mind-itself | In the Kagyu and Nyingma systems, the deepest nature of the mind. | Tib.: sems-nyid |
| gelassen beruhigter und zur Ruhe gekommener Geist | serenely stilled and settled state of mind | See: stilled and settled state of mind | |
| gelobte Enthaltung / Einschränkung / Zurückhaltung | vowed restraint | See: vow | |
| Gelübde | vow | (1) In the Sautrantika, Chittamatra, and Madhyamaka schools other than Gelug Prasangika, the subsidiary awareness (mental factor) to restrain from a certain type of detrimental behavior, which, during a specific ceremony, one has formally promised to restrain from. (2) In the Vaibhashika and Gelug-Prasangika systems, a non-revealing form on a person's mental continuum that performs the same function as in (1) by shaping one's behavior. | Tib.: sdom-pa Skt.: samvara |
| Gelübde, Bodhisattva- | vows, bodhisattva | See: bodhisattva vows | |
| Gelübde, tantrische | vows, tantric | See: tantric vows | |
| Gelübde der individuellen Befreiung / Gelübde für die individuelle Befreiung | vows for individual liberation | See: pratimoksha vows | |
| Gelübde-Präzeptor / die Gelübde abnehmender Präzeptor | vow preceptor | A spiritual mentor who has kept one or more of the sets of pratimoksha vows purely for a certain number of years and who confers on disciples one of the sets of pratimoksha vows that he or she has kept purely. | |
| Gelug | Gelug | One of the New Translation traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, deriving from the reforms made by Tsongkhapa. | Tib.: dGe-lugs |
| gemeinsame Bedeutung, Lehren mit einer | shared meaning, teaching of | See: teaching of shared meaning | |
| gemeinsame Grundlage | common locus | Auch übersetzt als: gemeinsamer Nenner | Tib.: gzhi-mthun |
| gemeinsam entstehend / mit entstehend | co-arising | ??? Alex: what is this? | Tib.: lhan-skyes Skt.: sahaja |
| genaue Prüfung | scrutiny | See: subtle discernment | |
| Geräusch / Klang | sound | An object explicitly cognized by ear consciousness. | Tib.: sgra Skt.: shabda |
| gereiftes Ergebnis | ripened result | A nonobstructive unspecified item conjoined with the mental continuum of a limited being, such as the body, consciousness, and feelings of happiness and unhappiness, and which comes from a ripening cause that was also conjoined with his or her mental continuum. | Tib.: rnam-smin-gyi 'bras-bu Skt.: vipakaphalam |
| gereinigter Zustand | purified state | The state of a shravaka arhat, pratyekabuddha arhat, or a Buddha, in which the mental continuum of the person attaining this state has been purified of either the emotional obscurations or both the emotional and the cognitive obscurations. | Tib.: byang-chub Skt.: bodhi |
| Geschick bezüglich der Mittel | skill in means | The special discriminating awareness concerning the most effective and appropriate internal methods for actualizing the Buddha's teachings and the most effective and appropriate external methods for making limited beings ripe for attaining liberation and enlightenment. In Mahayana, when conjoined with a bodhichitta, the seventh of the ten far-reaching attitudes. | Tib.: thabs-mkhas Skt.: upayakaushalya |
| geschickte Mittel | skillful means | See: skill in means | |
| Geschmacksbewusstsein | consciousness, tongue | See: tongue consciousness | |
| Gesegnete, der/ der Heilige | Blessed One | See: Vanquishing Master Surpassing All | |
| Geshe | geshe | (1) In the Kadam tradition, a title given to a spiritual mentor and friend, especially those that are masters of attitude-training (lojong). (2) In the Gelug tradition, a title given to those who have completed the monastic education system. | Tib.: dge-bshes Skt.: kalyanamitra |
| getrennt vom sich zu Geiste nehmen | parted from taking to mind | See: state parted from taking to mind | |
| getrennt von geistiger Fabrikation | parted from mental fabrication | See: state parted from mental fabrication | |
| getrennt von Verwirrung | confusion, dissociated from | See: untainted | |
| getrennt von Verwirrung | dissociated from confusion | See: untainted | |
| getrennt von Verwirrung | unassociated with confusion | See: untainted | |
| Gewahrsein | awareness | Gewahrsein ist der allgemeine, alles umfassende Begriff für das Erkennen eines Objekts. Er wird sowohl in dem Sinne verwendet, dass man einer Sache gewahr ist, als auch, dass man etwas zu einem Objekt des Gewahrseins macht. Es muss sich dabei jedoch nicht um eine bewusste Willensakt oder einen Akt des Erkennens handeln, was das Objekt ist. | |
| Gewahrsein, allgemeines | awareness, general | See: general awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, allwissendes verwirklichtes | awareness, omniscient realized | See: omniscient realized awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, begrenztes | awareness, limited | See: sem | |
| Gewahrsein, entscheidendes | awareness, decisive | See: ascertainment | |
| Gewahrsein, erhöhtes | awareness, advanced | See: advanced awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, grundlegendes verwirklichtes | awareness, basis or fundamental realized | See: basis or fundamental realized awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, Haupt- | awareness, principal | See: principal awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, Neben- | awareness, subsidiary | See: subsidiary awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, normales | awareness, normal | See: normal awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, reflexives | awareness, reflexive | See: reflexive awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, reines | awareness, pure | See: pure awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, spezifisches | awareness, specific | See: specific awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, tiefes | awareness, deep | See: deep awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, tiefes reflexives | awareness, reflexive deep | See: reflexive deep awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, unterscheidendes | awareness, discriminating | See: discriminating awareness | |
| Gewahrsein, ursprünglich reines | awareness, primally pure | See: primal purity | |
| Gewahrsein, vollbringendes | awareness, accomplishing | See: accomplishing deep awareness | Tib.: bya-grub ye-shes |
| Gewahrsein des klaren Lichts | clear light awareness | Das Gewahrsein des klaren Lichts ist die subtilste Ebene geistiger Aktivität (Geist), die sich, ohne einen Anfang und ohne ein Ende zu besitzen, selbst nach dem Tod und in der Buddhaschaft weiter fortsetzt [fortdauert]. Das Gewahrsein des klaren Lichts ist individuell und macht das geistige Kontinuum eines jeden Wesens aus [bildet das geistige Kontinuum jedes einzelnen Wesens]. Es ist frei von konzeptueller Wahrnehmung, dem Hervorbringen von Erscheinungen wahrer Existenz und frei vom Greifen nach wahrer Existenz, da es subtiler ist als die gröberen Ebenen geistiger Aktivität, mit denen das Gewahrsein auftritt. Das Gewahrsein des klaren Lichts hat nichts mit "Licht" zu tun. | Tib.: 'od-gsal |
| Gewahrsein des Pfades, verwirklichtes | awareness, pathway realized | See: pathway realized awareness | |
| Gewahrsein seines eigenen Angesichts | awareness of its own face | Das Gewahrsein seines eigenen Angesichts bezeichnet bei einem reinen Gewahrsein (Rigpa) die nichtkonzeptuelle Wahrnehmung von seiner eigenen Natur. | Tib.: rang-ngo shes-pa |
| Gewohnheit, karmische ständige | habit, karmic constant | See: karmic constant habit | |
| gewöhnliche Aufregung | ordinary commotion | The emotional ups and downs of overexcitement and depression in response to the eight transitory things in life: praise or criticism, good or bad news, gains or losses, things going well or poorly. | Tib.: tha-mal 'du-'dzi |
| gewöhnliches Wesen | ordinary being | A limited being who has not yet attained the state of an arya. In other words, someone who has not yet attained nonconceptual cognition of the four noble truths. | Tib.: so-so'i skye-bo |
| gezügeltes Verhalten | tamed behavior | Ethical behavior with which one both restrains oneself from destructive actions and engages in constructive ones. | Tib.: brtul-zhugs |
| Glaube an eine Tatsache auf der Grundlage der Vernunft /aus Vernunftsgründen | belief in a fact based on reason | Eine konstruktive Emotion, die eine Tatsache über etwas als wahr betrachtet, wobei sie sich auf die Gründe stützt, die die Tatsache durch logisches Denken untermauern. | Tib.: yid-ches-kyi dad-pa |
| Glaube an eine Tatsache mit einem klaren Verstand | belief in a fact, clearheaded | See: clearheaded belief in a fact | |
| Glaube an Tasachen | belief in facts | See: believing a fact to be true | |
| Glauben, dass eine Tatsache wahr ist | believing a fact to be true | A constructive emotion that focuses on something existent and validly knowable, something with good qualities, or an actual potential, and considers it either existent or true, or considers a fact about it as true. Some translators render the term as "faith." | Tib.: dad-pa Skt.: shraddha |
| Glauben, dass eine Tatsache wahr ist, auf Grundlage der Vernunft | believing a fact to be true based on reason | See: belief in a fact based on reason | Tib.: yid-ches-kyi dad-pa |
| Glauben an eine Tatsache mit einem Streben in diese Richtung / wobei man sie anstrebt | belief in a fact with an aspiration | Eine konstruktive Emotion, die sowohl eine Tatsache über etwas als wahr betrachtet, wie auch den Wunsch, den man in Bezug auf ein bestimmtes Objekt hegt, wie beispielsweise, dass man ein lebensbejahendes Ziel erreichen kann und dass man es erreichen wird. | Tib.: mngon-'dod-kyi dad-pa |
| gleiche essentielle Natur | same essential nature | The relationship between two facts about the same attribute of a phenomenon. In a sense, the two facts are referring to the same phenomenon from two points of view. The two facts may be naturally inseparable, such as the two truths about the phenomenon, or they may constitute a joined inseparability arising from the power of meditation, such as a blissful awareness and an awareness of voidness. Some translators render the term as "one by nature." | Tib.: ngo-bo gcig |
| Gleichmut | equanimity | (1) The mental factor (subsidiary awareness) of having an equal attitude toward everyone. (2) In Theravada, when conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, the tenth of the ten far-reaching attitudes -- the attitude with which one does not expect anything in return for one's help, being indifferent to pleasure and pain, and to any benefit or harm one might receive. | Tib.: btang-snyoms Skt.: upeksha |
| Gleichmut, bloßer | equanimity, mere | See: mere equanimity | |
| gleichsetzendes tiefes Gewahrsein | equalizing deep awareness | One of the five types of deep awareness that all beings have as an aspect of Buddha-nature. The deep awareness that is aware of several items as belonging equally to the same category, or as fitting into the same pattern. Also called: deep awareness of the equality of things. | Tib.: mnyam-nyid ye-shes |
| gleichzeitig auftreten | simultaneously arising | Two items simultaneously arise if, when one of them arises or happens, the other does also, at the same time. The two items may arise simultaneously either naturally or through the power of meditation. Also called: innate. | Tib.: lhan-skyes Skt.: sahaja |
| gleichzeitig motivierendes Ziel / stattfindendes motivierendes Ziel | contemporaneous motivating aim | The motivating aim or intention that accompanies the impulse to start and to continue an action. | Tib.: dus-kyi kun-slong |
| gleichzeitig wirkende Bedingung | simultaneously acting condition | An item that must exist prior to the arising of something and which assists in making the arising happen, but which does not transform into what arises, for instance water for a sprout. | Tib.: lhan-cig byed-pa'i rkyen Skt.: sahakaripratyaya |
| Glieder, die sich aus dem Realisierten ergeben | resultant links of what is actualized | In the twelve links of dependent arising, the two links of conception and aging and dying in a future rebirth thrown by the activated karmic aftermath of throwing karma. | Tib.: mngon-par grub-pa'i 'bras-bu'i yan-lag |
| Glorreiche, der | Triumphant One | An epithet of a Buddha - one who has triumphed over the emotional and cognitive obscurations. Some translators render the term as "Victorious One." | Tib.: rgyal-ba Skt.: jina |
| Glück, geistiges | happiness, mental | See: mental happiness | |
| Glücklichsein | happiness | That feeling which, when it stops, we wish to meet with it again. | Tib.: bde-ba Skt.: sukha |
| glückseliges Gewahrsein | blissful awareness | Glückseliges Gewahrsein ist ein Geisteszustand der entweder befleckt oder unbefleckt ist, und der durch unterschiedliche Intensitätsgrade von Glück gekennzeichnet ist. Einige der unbefleckten Grade von glückseligem Gewahrsein können in Praktiken des Anuttara-Yoga-Tantra als die Art von Gewahrsein verwendet werden, mit dem man sich auf Leerheit ausrichtet und mit dessen Hilfe man die Energiewinde im Zentralkanal auflöst, um Zugang zum Gewahrsein des klaren Lichts zu erlangen. | Tib.: bde-ba Skt.: sukha |
| Glückselig Gegangener | Blissfully Gone One | Ein Beiname des Buddha - jemand der das glückselige Ziel der Erleuchtung durch Methoden erreicht hat, die auf dem Weg zum Ziel Glück erzeugen. | Tib.: bde-bar gshegs-pa Skt.: sugata |
| Glückseligkeit | bliss | See: blissful awareness | |
| goldenes Trankopfer | golden libation | (1) An offering of a liquid, most commonly alcohol, made usually to a Dharma protector and ideally offered in a golden bowl. (2) The ritual that accompanies this offering. | Tib.: gser-skyems |
| Götterwesen | being, divine | See: divine being | |
| Götterwesen | divine being | A limited (sentient) being in the rebirth state that, out of the six states of rebirth, has the least amount of suffering. This class of being includes some that are on the plane of sensory desires, and all beings on the plane of ethereal forms and the plane of formless beings. Also called a "god." | Tib.: lha Skt.: deva |
| Gottheit, kraftvolle | deity, forceful | See: forceful deity | |
| göttliches Auge, außersinnliches | divine eye, extrasensory | See: extrasensory divine eye | |
| göttliches Ohr, außersinnliches | divine ear, extrasensory | See: extrasensory divine ear | |
| Greifen nach wahrer Existenz | grasping for truly established existence | (1) Both to cognize (literally, take as a cognitive object) the appearance of the world as having truly established existence, which the habits of this grasping cause the mind to fabricate and project, as well as believing this deceptive appearance to correspond to how things actually exist, (2) simply cognizing the appearance of the world as having truly established existence, without actually believing this deceptive appearance to correspond to how things actually exist. Gelug asserts both definitions, while non-Gelug asserts only the first. Abbreviated as "grasping for true existence." | Tib.: bden-'dzin Skt.: satyagraha |
| grobes Feststellen | gross detection | The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) that investigates something roughly, such as detecting if there are mistakes on a page. According to Asanga, one of the four changeable subsidiary awarenesses. Also translated as "investigation." | Tib.: rtog-pa |
| grobe Unbeständigkeit | gross impermanence | The final destruction or disintegration of a nonstatic phenomenon. | Tib.: mi-rtag-pa rags-pa |
| große Liebe | great love | The wish for everyone to be happy and to have the causes for happiness. | Tib.: byams-pa chen-po Skt.: mahamaitri |
| großes Annäherungsretreat | great approximation retreat | A three-year, three-month retreat focusing exclusively on one Buddha-figure (deity) system, in which one recites tens of millions of mantras and makes millions of offerings in fire pujas. | Tib.: bsnyen-chen |
| großes Fahrzeug | Greater Vehicle | See: Mahayana | |
| großes Mitgefühl | great compassion | Großes Mitgefühl bezeichnet den Wunsch, das jedes Wesen frei sein möge vom Leiden und den Ursachen des Leidens. | Tib.: snying-rje chen-po Skt.: mahakaruna |
| großes Siegel | great seal | See: mahamudra | |
| große Vollendung | great completeness | See: dzogchen | |
| Großzügigkeit | generosity | (1) In Theravada, the mental factor of wishing to give material things to all beings, so that they may be happy, without investigating whether or not they are worthy to receive them. (2) In Mahayana, the mental urge that leads one to wish to give to others all that is one's own – one's body, material wealth, and the roots of one's constructive actions. When conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, it becomes a far-reaching attitude. Also translated as "giving." | Tib.: sbyin-pa Skt.: dana |
| Grundlage der Zuschreibung | basis for imputation | See: basis for labeling | |
| grundlegendes Bewusstsein | foundation consciousness | See: all-encompassing foundation consciousness | |
| grundlegendes Rigpa | basis rigpa | Das grundlegende Rigpa ist ein reines Gewahrsein (Rigpa) aus dem Blickwinkel, dass das reine Gewahrsein eine Form von Buddhanatur oder Arbeitsgrundlage zum Erlangen der Erleuchtung ist. | Tib.: gzhi'i rig-pa |
| gültige bloße Wahrnehmung | valid bare cognition | Bare cognition that is fresh and nonfallacious. See: bare cognition. | Tib.: mngon-sum tshad-ma Skt.: pratyakshapramana |
| gültige einfache Wahrnehmung | valid straightforward cognition | Straightforward cognition that is nonfallacious. See: straightforward cognition. | Tib.: mngon-sum tshad-ma Skt.: pratyakshapramana |
| gültig erkennbare Phänomene | validly knowable phenomena | Phenomena that can be the objects of valid cognition. Synonymous with "existents." | Tib.: shes-bya |
| gültige Wahnehmung | valid cognition | (1) According to Gelug Sautrantika, Gelug Chittamatra, and Gelug Svatantrika-Madhyamaka, a fresh, nonfallacious cognition. (2) According to Gelug Prasangika and all tenet systems according to non-Gelug, a nonfallacious cognition. | Tib.: tshad-ma Skt.: pramana |
| Guru, Hingabe zum | devotion, guru | See: guru devotion | |
| Güte / gütige Handlung | kindness | A beneficial action that is of help to others. | Tib.: drin |
| gute Eigenschaften | good qualities | Helpful aspects or beneficial talents of a person that are corrections of inadequacies. | Tib.: yon-tan Skt.: guna |
| Güte erinnern | kindness, remembering | See: remembering kindness | |
| Güte erinnern | remembering kindness | Remembering the kindness of motherly love, remembering all the beneficial things that all beings have shown us when they were our mothers. The second of the six part cause and effect quintessence teaching for developing bodhichitta. | Tib.: drin-dran |
| Güte zurückgeben | kindness, repaying | See: repaying kindness | |
| Güte zurückgeben | repaying kindness | Appreciating the beneficial things that all beings have shown us when they were our mothers and wishing to benefit them in return. The third of the seven part cause and effect quintessence teaching for developing bodhichitta. | Tib.: drin-gso |