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| Deutsch | Englisch | Definition (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. | de-kho-na-nyid mchod-pa | |
| Gabe / Opfergabe | offering | Something presented, with respect and the intention to bring happiness and benefit, to someone else. | mchod-pa | |
| Gabe / Opfergabe, äußere | offering, outer | See: outer offering. | ||
| 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. | ting-nge-'dzin-gyi mchod-pa | |
| Gebet der Aspiration | aspirational prayer | (1) A prayer for the attainment of a spiritual goal or of the circumstances conducive for reaching that goal. (2) In the context of the ten Mahayana far-reaching attitudes, a special discriminating awareness concerning phenomena toward which to aspire. This discriminating awareness is in connection with the aspiration never to be parted from a bodhichitta aim in all one's lifetimes and for the continuity of one's far-reaching activities for benefiting all beings never to be broken. | smon-lam | 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 become angry. When conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, patience becomes a far-reaching attitude. | bzod-pa | kshanti (Pali: khanti) |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | sems | 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 attitude. | ||
| Geisteshaltung / geistige Einstellung | attitude | A mental factor that takes its cognitive object by regarding it from a certain point of view. | 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." | lhag-mthong | vipashyana |
| Geisteszustand von außergewöhnlicher Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit | mind, exceptionally perceptive state of | See: exceptionally perceptive state of mind. | ||
| 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. | gzugs-bsnyan | 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. | rnam-g.yeng | |
| geistige Aktivität, subtilste | mind, subtlest | See: subtlest mind. | ||
| 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. | 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. | 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. | spros-pa | 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. | 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. | sems-pa | 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. | yid-lus | |
| geistige Ruhe | mental quiescence | See: stilled and settled state of mind. | ||
| geistige Sammelsynthese | collection mental synthesis | A whole imputed on spatial, sensorial, and/or temporal parts. | 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. | yid-kyi rnam-shes | manovijnana |
| geistiges Bezeichnen / geistiges Zuschreiben | mental labeling | To impute (project, superimpose), with conceptual cognition, an audio category (such as the word or name "table") or a meaning/object category (such as a "table" as an individual object) onto a basis (such as four legs and a flat board on top of them). Also translated as "imputation." | 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. | rnam-pa | 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. | '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." | ting-nge-'dzin | 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." | sems-rgyud | 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." | bsam-gtan | 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." | 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." | 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. | 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. | 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. | sdom-pa | 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. | dGe-lugs | |
| gemeinsame Grundlage | common locus | A common locus of two sets of phenomena is an item that is a member of both sets. Sometimes translated as "common denominator." | gzhi-mthun | |
| gemeinsam entstehend / mit entstehend | co-arising | Arising simultaneously with each moment of experience, for example a blissful awareness itself or a blissful awareness of voidness, attained with complete stage practice of anuttarayogatantra. | lhan-skyes | sahaja |
| genaue Prüfung | scrutiny | See: subtle discernment. | ||
| Geräusch / Klang | sound | An object explicitly cognized by ear consciousness. | sgra | 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. | rnam-smin-gyi 'bras-bu | 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. | byang-chub | 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. | thabs-mkhas | upayakaushalya, upaya |
| geschickte Mittel | skillful means | See: skill in means | ||
| 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 Gelig tradition, a title given to those who have completed the monastic education system. | dge-bshes | 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 | The most general, all-inclusive term for cognizing an object. It is used in the sense of both being aware of something and making something an object of awareness, but not necessarily as a conscious act of will or knowing what the object is. | ||
| Gewahrsein, allgemeines | awareness, general | See: general awareness. | ||
| Gewahrsein, begrenztes | awareness, limited | See: sem. | ||
| Gewahrsein, entscheidendes | awareness, decisive | See: ascertainment. | ||
| Gewahrsein, erhöhtes | awareness, advanced | See: advanced 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. | bya-grub ye-shes | |
| Gewahrsein des klaren Lichts | clear light awareness | The subtlest level of mental activity (mind), which continues with no beginning and no end, without any break, even during death and even into Buddhahood. It is individual and constitutes the mental continuum of each being. It is naturally free of conceptual cognition, the appearance-making of true existence, and grasping for true existence, since it is more subtle than the grosser levels of mental activity with which these occur. It has nothing to do with "light." | 'od-gsal | |
| Gewahrsein seines eigenen Angesichts | awareness of its own face | The nonconceptual cognition, by rigpa (pure awareness), of its own nature. | 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. | 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. | 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. | brtul-zhugs | |
| Glaube an eine Tatsache auf der Grundlage der Vernunft /aus Vernunftsgründen | belief in a fact based on reason | A constructive emotion that considers a fact about something to be true, based on having thought, with logic, about the reasons that prove it. Also called "confident belief." | 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." | dad-pa | 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. | ||
| Glauben an eine Tatsache mit einem Streben in diese Richtung / wobei man sie anstrebt | belief in a fact with an aspiration | A constructive emotion that considers true both a fact about something and a wish one holds about that object, such as that one can attain a positive goal and that one will attain it. | 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." | 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. | btang-snyoms | upeksha (Pali: upekkha) |
| 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. | 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. | lhan-skyes | 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. | 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. | lhan-cig byed-pa'i rkyen | 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. | 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." | rgyal-ba | jina |
| Glücklichsein | happiness | That feeling which, when it stops, we wish to meet with it again. | bde-ba | sukha |
| glückseliges Gewahrsein | blissful awareness | A state of mind, either tainted or untainted, characterized by varying levels of intensity of happiness. Some of the untainted ones can be utilized in anuttarayoga tantra practice as the type of awareness with which to focus on voidness, and as an aid for dissolving the energy-winds in the central channel in order to gain access to clear light awareness. | bde-ba | sukha |
| Glückselig Gegangener | Blissfully Gone One | An epithet of a Buddha - one who has reached the blissful goal of enlightenment through methods that produce happiness along the way to reaching that goal. | bde-bar gshegs-pa | 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. | 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." | lha | 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." | bden-'dzin | 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." | rtog-pa | |
| grobe Unbeständigkeit | gross impermanence | The final destruction or disintegration of a nonstatic phenomenon. | mi-rtag-pa rags-pa | |
| große Liebe | great love | The wish for everyone to be happy and to have the causes for happiness. | byams-pa chen-po | 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. | bsnyen-chen | |
| großes Fahrzeug | Greater Vehicle | See: Mahayana. | ||
| großes Mitgefühl | great compassion | The wish for everyone to be free from suffering and from the causes for suffering. | snying-rje chen-po | 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." | sbyin-pa | dana |
| Grundlage der Zuschreibung | basis for imputation | See: basis for labeling. | ||
| grundlegendes Bewusstsein | foundation consciousness | See: all-encompassing foundation consciousness. | ||
| grundlegendes Rigpa | basis rigpa | Pure awareness (rigpa) from the point of view of it being a type of Buddha-nature or working basis for attaining enlightenment. | gzhi'i rig-pa | |
| gültige bloße Wahrnehmung | valid bare cognition | Bare cognition that is fresh and nonfallacious. See: bare cognition. | mngon-sum tshad-ma | pratyakshapramana |
| gültige einfache Wahrnehmung | valid straightforward cognition | Straightforward cognition that is nonfallacious. See: straightforward cognition. | mngon-sum tshad-ma | pratyakshapramana |
| gültig erkennbare Phänomene | validly knowable phenomena | Phenomena that can be the objects of valid cognition. Synonymous with "existents." | 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. | tshad-ma | pramana |
| Guru, Hingabe zum | devotion, guru | See: guru devotion. | ||
| Güte / gütige Handlung | kindness | A beneficial action that is of help to others. | drin | |
| gute Eigenschaften | good qualities | Helpful aspects or beneficial talents of a person that are corrections of inadequacies. | yon-tan | 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. | drin-dran | |
| 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. | drin-gso |