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| Deutsch | Englisch | Definition (Englisch) | Tibetisch | Sanskrit (Pali) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| abgrenzen | preclude | To cut off, dismiss, or reject something. To logically cut off or eliminate the possibility that something is something else | bcad-pa | |
| Abgrenzen | preclusion | The conceptual process through which sets and countersets are formulated. It implies previous apprehension of an object to be negated, in which the apprehension itself logically and automatically excludes the object to be negated from the set of either all validly knowable phenomena other than itself or all validly knowable phenomena in total. It is not a deliberate, conscious mental act. | bcad-pa | |
| abhängiges Phänomen | dependent phenomenon | A validly knowable object that arises dependently on causes and conditions. All nonstatic phenomena. Often translated literally as "other-powered phenomenon." | gzhan-dbang | paratantra |
| Abhisambodhikaya | Abhisambodhikaya | See: Corpus of Manifest Enlightenment. | ||
| Ableitung, geistige | derivative, mental | See: mental derivative. | ||
| Ablösung | detachment | The constructive mental factor of bored disgust with and thus lack of longing desire for compulsive existence and objects of compulsive existence. Also translated as "nonattachment." | chags-pa med-pa | asanga |
| Abneigung | aversion | See: anger. | ||
| Abscheu | dread | The strong wish not to experience something or for something not to happen. If overlaid with grasping for truly established existence, it becomes fear. Sometimes translated as "fear." | 'jigs-pa | |
| Abschweifung, geistige | wandering, mental | See: mental wandering. | ||
| Absicht / Intention | intention | The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) to obtain any object, to achieve any goal, or to do something with the object or goal once obtained or achieved. | 'dun-pa | |
| absolute Abwesenheit | absolute absence | The absence of something impossible; the absence of something that has never existed and never can exist. | ||
| absolute Negierung | absolute nullification | The refutation of the possibility that something could exist. | ||
| Abstraktion, nichtstatische | abstraction, nonstatic | See: noncongruent affecting variable. | ||
| Abstraktion, statische | abstraction, static | See: static phenomena. | ||
| Abwesenheit, absolute | absence, absolute | See: absolute absence. | ||
| Abwesenheit, bloße | absence, bare | See: bare absence. | ||
| Abwesenheit wahrer Identität | lack of true identity | See: lack of an impossible soul. | ||
| acht vergängliche Angelegenheiten des Lebens | eight transitory things in life | Praise or criticism, good or bad news, gains or losses, things going well or poorly -- or, more specifically, the emotional ups and downs of overexcitement and depression in response to these eight. Also called the "eight worldly dharmas." | 'jig-rten-pa'í chos-brgyad | |
| acht weltliche Dharmas | eight worldly dharmas | See: eight transitory things in life. | ||
| Aggregat der anderen beeinflussenden Variablen | aggregate of other affecting variables | One of the five aggregate factors of experience. The network of all instances of subsidiary awarenesses (mental factors), other than feelings of levels of happiness and distinguishing, as well as all instances of noncongruent affecting variables, that could be part of any moment of experience on someone's mental continuum. Some translators render the term as "aggregate of volitions" or "aggregate of karmic formations." | 'du-byed-kyi phung-po | samskara-skandha |
| Aggregat der Empfindungen | aggregate of feelings | See: aggregate of feelings of a level of happiness | ||
| Aggregat der Empfindungen eines Grades an Glücklichsein | aggregate of feelings of levels of happiness | One of the five aggregate factors of experience. The network of all instances of the subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of feeling a level of happiness or unhappiness that could be part of any moment of experience on someone's mental continuum. Also called "aggregate of feelings." See: feeling a level of happiness. | tshor-ba'i phung-po | vedana-skandha |
| Aggregat der Formen | aggregate of forms | See: aggregate of forms of physical phenomena. | ||
| Aggregat der Formen | form aggregate | See: aggregate of forms of physical phenomena. | ||
| Aggregat der Formen physischer Phänomene | aggregate of forms of physical phenomena | One of the five aggregate factors of experience. The network of all instances of all types of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, physical sensations, physical sensors, and forms of physical phenomena included only among the cognitive stimulators that are all phenomena. Any of these can be part of any moment of experience on someone's mental continuum. Also called "aggregate of forms." | gzugs-kyi phung-po | rupa-skandha |
| Aggregat der karmischen Formationen | aggregate of karmic formations | See: aggregate of other affecting variables | ||
| Aggregat der Willensregungen | aggregate of volitions | See: aggregate of other affecting variables. | ||
| Aggregat des Erkennens | aggregate of recognition | See: aggregate of distinguishing. | ||
| Aggregat des Primärbewusstseins | aggregate of primary consciousnesses | One of the five aggregate factors of experience. The network of all instances of mental consciousness or of any of the five types of sensory consciousness that could be part of any moment of experience on someone's mental continuum. It also includes the network of all instances of deluded awareness and all-encompassing foundation consciousness in those systems that assert these two. Also called: "aggregate of consciousness." | rnam-shes-kyi phung-po | vijnana-skandha |
| Aggregat des Unterscheidens | aggregate of distinguishing | One of the five aggregate factors of experience. The network of all instances of the subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of distinguishing that could be part of any moment of experience on someone's mental continuum. Some translators render the term as "aggregate of recognition." See: distinguishing. | 'du-shes-kyi phung-po | samjna-skandha |
| Aggregate | aggregate | A network of many items, all of which are nonstatic phenomena. See also: aggregate factors of experience. | phung-po | skandha |
| Aggregate, befleckte | aggregates, tainted | See: tainted aggregates. | ||
| Aggregate, herbeiführende | aggregates, obtaining | See: obtaining aggregates. | ||
| Aggregate, unbefleckte | aggregates, untainted | See: untainted aggregates. | ||
| Aggregat-Faktoren der Erfahrung | aggregate factors of experience | The five networks (five aggregates) that constitute all the nonstatic phenomena that make up each moment of the mental continuum of each limited being. | phung-po | skandha |
| aktivieren | activate | To cause a karmic tendency to become a manifest karmic impulse that will give its result in the next moment. Also translated as "arouse." Tibetan alternative: nus-pa mthu-can-du byed-pa. | gsos-'debs | |
| aktivieren | activate | See: activate, Tib. gsos-'debs. | nus-pa mthu-can-du byed-pa | |
| Alaya | alaya | See: basis for all. | ||
| Alaya, ursprüngliches tiefstes | alaya, primordial deepest | See: primordial deepest alaya. | ||
| Alaya des spezifischen Gewahrseins | alaya, specific-awareness | See: specific-awareness alaya. | ||
| Alaya des tiefen Gewahrseins | alaya, deep-awareness | See: deep-awareness alaya. | ||
| Alaya des tiefen Gewahrseins | deep awareness alaya | In the Karma Kagyu system, a synonym for "mind-itself": the pure aspect of mind that is an aspect of Buddha-nature. | kun-gzhi ye-shes | |
| Alaya für Gewohnheiten | alaya for habits | In the dzogchen system, foundational awareness for the habits of grasping for truly established existence, for karma, and for memories. The type of limited awareness that basis rigpa functions as, when it is mixed with dumbfoundedness. | bag-chags-kyi kun-gzhi | |
| Alayavijnana | alayavijnana | See: all-encompassing foundation consciousness. | ||
| Alleinentwickeler | self-evolver | See: pretyekabuddha. | ||
| Alleinverwirklicher | self-realizer | See: pratyekabuddha. | ||
| Alleinverwirklicher-Buddha | solitary Buddha | See: pratyekabuddha. | ||
| alles durchdringend | all-permeating | The quality of rigpa (pure awareness) that it interpenetrates and pervades all instances of limited awareness (sem) without obstruction, in the same manner as oil permeates sesame seeds. | zang-thal | |
| Alles Übertreffender Siegreicher Meister | Vanquishing Master Surpassing All | An epithet of a Buddha - one who has conquered (vanquished) all obstacles, attained (mastered) all good qualities, and gone beyond (surpassed) any of the Hindu gods for whom the epithet Bhagavan has also been applied. Some translators render the term as "Blessed One." | bcom-ldan-'das | bhagavan |
| alles umfassend | all-encompassing | Including everything within its domain. | ||
| alles umfassend | all-pervasive | Pertaining to everything. | ||
| Alles umfassender Körper | Body Encompassing Everything | See: Corpus Encompassing Everything. | ||
| Alles umfassender Körper | Corpus Encompassing Everything | The omniscient mind of a Buddha | chos-sku | dharmakaya |
| alles umfassendes beeinflussendes Leiden | all-pervasively affecting suffering | The suffering that comes simply from having tainted aggregates that serve as the basis for experiencing the suffering of suffering and the suffering of change. Such suffering is all-pervasive since it affects every moment of samsaric experience. | khyab-par 'du-byed-kyi sdug-bsngal | |
| alles umfassendes grundlegendes Bewusstsein | all-encompassing foundation consciousness | An unspecified, nonobstructive, individual consciousness that underlies all cognition, cognizes the same objects as the cognitions it underlies, but is a nondetermining cognition of what appears to it and lacks clarity of its objects. It carries the karmic legacies of karma and the mental impressions of memories, in the sense that they are imputed on it. It is also translated as "foundation consciousness" and, by some translators, as "storehouse consciousness." According to Gelug, asserted only by the Chittamatra system; according to non-Gelug, assserted by both the Chittamatra and Madhyamaka systems. | kun-gzhi rnam-shes | alayavijnana |
| alles umfassendes Leiden | all-pervasive suffering | See: all-pervasively affecting suffering. | ||
| Allgemeine(s) | universal | See: conceptual category. | ||
| Allgemeines, Arten- | universal, kind | See: kind mental synthesis. | ||
| Allgemeines, bedeutungsbezogenes | universal, meaning | See: mental category. | ||
| Allgemeines, Hör- | universal, audio | See: audio category. | ||
| Allgemeines, Klang- | universal, sound | See: audio category. | ||
| Allgemeines, objektbezogenes | universal, object | See: object universal | ||
| allgemeines Gewahrsein | general awareness | In the Karma Kagyu system, the aspect of mental activity that gives rise to and is aware of the appearing (the arising in general) of an awareness of an object and an object that one is aware of. In a looser sense, awareness of the general features of an entire sensory or mental field that one cognizes, so that one gets an overview. | yid | |
| Allgemeinheit | generality | See: conceptual category. | ||
| allgemein verständliches Objekt | commonsense object | An external sensory object, extending over the sensibilia (sense data) of several senses and over time; what an ordinary person, when cognizing one moment of the sensibilia of one sense, would impute and consider as an object with his or her common sense. See also: conventional commonsense object. | 'jig-rten-la grags-pa | |
| Alllgemeines, Sammlungs- | universal, collection | See: collection mental synthesis. | ||
| Allwissendes Gewahrsein eines Buddha | omniscient awareness | A Buddha's unceasing nonconceptual cognition simultaneously of all validly knowable phenomena and their voidnesses -- in other words, of the two truths about all knowable phenomena. | kun-mkhyen | |
| Allwissenheit | omniscience | See: omniscient awareness. | ||
| als wahr begründete Existenz | existence established as true | See: true existence. | ||
| Altern und Sterben | aging and dying | In a particular rebirth, the period starting immediately after the moment of conception and ending with the moment of death. | rga-shi | |
| Analyse | analysis | See: subtle discernment. | ||
| Analyse, klar erkennende | analysis, discerning | See: subtle discernment. | ||
| analytische Meditation | analytical meditation | See: discerning meditation. | ||
| andauernde Eigenschaften | abiding traits | See: naturally abiding family-traits. | ||
| andauernde Natur | abiding nature | The lasting, enduring nature of all phenomena; the voidness of all phenomena. | gnas-lugs | |
| Anderesleerheit | other-voidness | The natural, beginningless absence from the clear light level of mental activity of "other" levels of mental activity, which are all limited by fleeting stains. | gzhan-stong | |
| andere wertschätzen / sich um das Wohl der anderen kümmern / das Wohl der anderen liegt uns am Herzen | cherishing others | The attitude with which one considers others as the most precious and important ones; and has affection for and takes care of mainly others. Alternative Tibetan: gzhan-gces. | gzhan gces-par 'dzin-pa | |
| Aneigung / Errungenschaft | acquirement | The obtainment or gain of something, such as a vow or a spiritual attainment, imputable on the mental continuum of the one who has gained it. An acquirement or acquiring of something is a noncongruent affecting variable -- a nonstatic phenomenon that is neither a form of material phenomena nor a way of being aware of something. | thob-pa | |
| Anhaftung | attachment | The disturbing emotion that exaggerates the good qualities of an object that one possesses and does not wish to let go of it. Alternative Tibetan: 'dod-chags, Sanskrit: raga. | chags-pa | sanga |
| Anhaftung | attachment | See: attachment, Tib. chags-pa, Skt. sanga. | 'dod-chags | raga |
| Anhaftung, klebrige | attachment, sticky | See: sticky attachment. | ||
| Anleitungen, persönliche | instructions, personal | See: personal instructions. | ||
| Anleitungen, richtungsweisende | instructions, guideline | See: guideline instructions. | ||
| Annäherungs-Retreat, großes | approximation retreat, great | See: great approximation retreat. | ||
| Anreger, zwölf | stimulators of cognition, twelve | See: twelve stimulators of cognition. | ||
| Anreger der Wahrnehmung | stimulators of cognition | The focal conditions and dominating conditions that give rise to the six types of cognition -- namely, the cognitive objects and cognitive sensors of each of the six cognitive faculties. In the case of the five sensory faculties, the objects and sensors are forms of physical phenomena, such as sights and photosensitive cells. In the case of the mental faculty, the objects may be any validly knowable phenomenon, while the sensors are the immediately preceding moments of mental cognition. Usually counted as the twelve stimulators of cognition, but in the list of the twelve links of dependent arising, referred to as the six stimulators of cognition, in which case the two cognitive stimulators of each cognitive faculty are counted as one. | skye-mched | ayatana |
| Ansammlung von Weisheit | collection of wisdom | See: network of deep awareness. | ||
| Anschein / Abbild | semblance, mental | See: mental aspect. | ||
| anschließende Erlaubnis | subsequent permission | A tantric ritual for a specific Buddha-figure, received in order to strengthen further the Buddha-nature factors that were previously activated with a full empowerment. Usually called by its Tibetan name, "jenang." | rjes-snang | |
| Ansichten, Anblicke | sights | Nonstatic phenomena that can be explicitly cognized by eye consciousness -- namely, colors and shapes. Equivalent to "forms of physical phenomena that can become objects of experience of the eyes." One of the eleven types of forms of physical phenomena. | gzugs | rupa |
| anstrebender Zustand des anstrebenden Bodhichitta | aspiring state of aspiring bodhichitta | See: merely aspiring state of aspiring bodhichitta. | ||
| anstrebendes Bodhichitta | aspiring bodhichitta | A mind of bodhichitta which, when focused on one's own individual future enlightenment, is accompanied by the aspiration or wish to attain that enlightenment. Alternative Tibetan: smon-pa'i sems-bskyed. | smon-sems | |
| anstrebendes Bodhichitta | aspiring bodhichitta | See: aspiring bodhichitta, Tib. smon-sems. | smon-pa'i sems-bskyed | |
| Anuttarayoga-Tantra | anuttarayoga tantra | In the Sarma (New Translation Period) Tibetan Buddhist schools, the fourth or highest class of tantra practice, emphasizing special internal methods for actualizing oneself as a Buddha-figure. | bla-med rnal-'byor | anuttarayoga tantra |
| Anuyoga | anuyoga tantra | In the Nyingma system, the second of the three inner classes of tantra, emphasizing practices involving the subtle energy-system of winds, channels, and creative energy-drops. | a-nu yo-ga | |
| Arhat | arhat | A practitioner, of the shravaka, pratyekabuddha, or bodhisattva class, who has achieved a true stopping of the emotional obscurations and thus has attained liberation (nirvana). Also called a "liberated being." Some translators render the term as "foe-destroyer." | dgra-bcom-pa | arhat |
| Arhatschaft | arhatship | The state of an arhat. | ||
| Artenallgemeines | kind universal | See: kind mental synthesis. | ||
| Artsynthese | kind synthesis | See: kind mental synthesis. | ||
| Arya | arya | A practitioner who has had nonconceptual cognition of the four noble truths and thus has attained a shravaka, pratyekabuddha, or bodhisattva seeing pathway of mind (path of seeing). Also called a "highly realized practitioner" or a "highly realized being." Some translators render the term as "noble one." | 'phags-pa | arya |
| Arya-Bodhisattva | arya bodhisattva | A bodhisattva that has attained nonconceptual cognition of voidness. See also: bodhisattva. | byang-sems 'phags-pa | arya bodhisattva |
| Arya-Pfadgeist | arya pathway mind | The three pathway minds of shravaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattva aryas (those with nonconceptual cognition of the four noble truths) -- namely, their seeing and accustoming pathway minds, and their pathway minds needing no further training. | 'phags-lam | aryamarga |
| Arya-Pratyekabuddha | arya pratyekabuddha | A pratyekabuddha that has attained nonconceptual cognition of the four noble truths. See also: pratyekabuddha. | rang-rgyal 'phags-pa | arya prtatyekabuddha |
| Arya-Shravaka | arya shravaka | A shravaka that has attained nonconceptual cognition of the four noble truths. See also: shravaka. | nyan-thos 'phags-pa | arya shravaka |
| Aspekte, natürlicherweise untrennbare | aspects, naturally inseparable | See: naturally inseparable aspects | ||
| Asura | asura | See: would-be divine. | ||
| Atiyoga | atiyoga | In the Nyingma system, the third of the three classes of inner tantras, in which meditation practices to actualize the immediate causes for an enlightening mind and Corpus of Forms of a Buddha are emphasized. | a-ti-yo-ga | |
| Auffassung | outlook | A way of regarding and understanding objects, for instance as "me" and "mine." | lta-ba | |
| Auffassung, extreme | outlook, extreme | See: extreme outlook. | ||
| Auffassung / Sicht | view | In the description of a Buddhist system in terms of the view of reality, a way of meditating, and way of behaving that it espouses, the main way for regarding and understanding reality. See also: outlook. | lta-ba | |
| Auffinden, grobes | detection, gross | See: gross detection. | ||
| Aufgeben | riddance | A static state in which an emotional obscuration or a cognitive obscuration has been removed forever from a mental continuum. Equivalent to a true stopping (true cessation). Translated by others as "abandonment." | spong-ba | hani |
| aufgeladenes Bewusstsein | loaded consciousness | See: link of loaded consciousness. | ||
| aufgeladenes Bewusstsein zum Zeitpunkt der Ursache | link of loaded consciousness at the time of the cause | The first phase of the third of the twelve links of dependent arising, the link of loaded consciousness. A mental continuum containing the karmic aftermath of throwing karma during the lifetime in which the karmic action producing it has occurred. The first part of the third link of dependent arising, the link of loaded consciousness. | rgyu-dus-kyi rnam-shes-kyi yan-lag | |
| aufgeladenes Bewusstsein zum Zeitpunkt der Ursache | loaded consciousness at the time of the cause, link of | See: link of loaded consciousness at the time of the cause. | ||
| aufgeladenes Bewusstsein zum Zeitpunkt des Ergebnisses | link of loaded consciousness at the time of the result | The second phase of the third of the twelve links of dependent arising, the link of loaded consciousness. A mental continuum containing the karmic aftermath of throwing karma during the future lifetime produced as a result of that throwing karma. | 'bras-dus-kyi rnam-shes-kyi yan-lag | |
| aufgeladenes Bewusstsein zum Zeitpunkt des Ergebnisses | loaded consciousness at the time of the result, link of | See: link of loaded consciousness at the time of the result. | ||
| Aufmerksamkeit | attention | The ever-functioning mental factor that engages mental activity with a specific cognitive object. The cognitive engagement may be merely to pay some level of attention to the object (strong or weak), or to focus on the object in a certain way (painstakingly, effortlessly, etc.), or to consider the object in a certain way (concordantly or discordantly). Also called: paying attention, consideration, take to mind, taking to mind. | yid-la byed-pa | manasi |
| Aufmerksamkeit, wiederherstellende | attention, restoring | See: restoring attention. | ||
| aufmerksam sein | paying attention | See: attention. | ||
| aufregend | upsetting | A way of being aware of something that shares five congruent features with craving for one's own tainted, obtainer aggregate factors of experience. | zang-zing | |
| Aufregung, gewöhnliche | commotion, ordinary | See: ordinary commotion. | ||
| auftauchen / auftreten / entstehen / in Erscheinung treten / an die Oberfläche treten | arise | See: dawn. | ||
| auftreten, gleichzeitig | arising, simultaneously | See: simultaneously arising. | ||
| Auge des Dharma, außersinnliches | eye of the Dharma, extrasensory | See: extrasensory eye of the Dharma. | ||
| Auge des tiefen Gewahrseins, außersinnliches | eye of deep awareness, extrasensory | See: extrasensory eye of deep awareness. | ||
| Auge des unterscheidenden Gewahrseins, außersinnliches | eye of discriminating awareness, extrasensory | See: extrasensory eye of discriminating awareness. | ||
| Ausbilder, Dharma- | instructor, Dharma | See: Dharma instructor. | ||
| Ausdauer, freudige | perseverance, joyful | See: joyful perseverance. | ||
| aus dem Geworfenen entstandene Glieder | resultant links of what has been thrown | In the twelve links of dependent arising, the three and a half links of resultant loaded consciousness, nameable mental faculties with or without gross form, stimulators of cognition, and contacting awareness, which occur during the development of an embryo in the womb in the life that is thrown by the activated karmic aftermath of throwing karma. | 'phangs-pa'i 'bras-bu'i yan-lag | |
| ausführliche Erklärung | discourse | An oral teaching on a spiritual topic, often concerning tantra. | khrid | |
| ausgeglichen / ausgeglichener Geist | even-tempered | The mental factor of not becoming either too involved or indifferent toward others, even when helping them. | ||
| ausgewogen / ausgewogener Geist | even-minded | A tranquil state of mind that stays in the middle with regard to being either happy or unhappy, in all circumstances, such as when meeting with or parting from friends. Literally, "a state of standing in the middle." | dbus-gnas-nyid | madhyasthata (Pali: tatra majjhattata) |
| ausgewogene Sensibilität | balanced sensitivity | The mental state of being neither overly or underly attentive and neither overly, underly, or inappropriately responsive, both with feelings and actions, to either the situation of others or oneself, or the effect of one's behavior on others or on oneself. | ||
| Ausgewogenheit, meditative | equipoise, meditative | See: total absorption. | ||
| auslegbare Lehre / interpretierbare Lehre | interpretable teaching | A passage in a sutra text that discusses any topic other than the most profound view of voidness, and which leads one on or points the way to the most profound view of voidness. Such passages require explanation, so that one does not confuse them as indicating the most profound view. | drang-don | nityartha |
| Ausrichtung auf ein Bezugsobjekt, ohne | referent aim, without a | See: without a referent aim. | ||
| Aussage / Behauptung / Erklärung | assertion | A position, accepted by a Buddhist or non-Buddhist tenet system, in regard to a philosophical point. | ||
| außergewöhnlicher Entschluss | exceptional resolve | The full determination with which one takes the responsibility to lead all limited beings to liberation and enlightenment. Sometimes translated as "pure wish." | lhag-bsam | adhyashaya |
| außerphysische Emanation | extraphysical emanations | Physical bodies having abilities that are beyond the usual capacity of the body -- such as the ability to run great distances at an incredible speed, to fly, to increase or decrease in size, to multiply, to walk on water, to pass beneath the earth, and so on -- which are produced (emanated) from karma, recitation of mantra, the power of specially consecrated substances, or the power of an actual state of the first level of mental stability (the first dhyana). | rdzu-'phrul | rddhi |
| außerphysische Kräfte | extraphysical powers | See: extraphysical emanations. | ||
| außersinnliches Auge des Dharma | extrasensory eye of the Dharma | One of the five extrasensory eyes gained as a byproduct of the attainment of an actual state of the first level of mental stability (the first dhyana). (1) According to the Gelug explanation, cognition that is able to understand the mental capacities of others, in order to be able to teach them appropriately. (2) According to the Karma Kagyu explanation, a Buddha's omniscient awareness that possesses the ten forces that enable a Buddha to lead all beings to enlightenment. | chos-kyi spyan | |
| außersinnliches Auge des tiefen Gewahrseins | extrasensory eye of deep awareness | A Buddha's omniscient awareness that is able to “see” the two truths about all phenomena. One of the five types of extrasensory eyes, possessed only by Buddhas. | ye-shes-kyi spyan | |
| außersinnliches Auge des unterscheidenden Gewahrseins | extrasensory eye of discriminating awareness | Cognition that is able to “see” voidness nonconceptually. One of the five extrasensory eyes gained as a byproduct of the attainment of an actual state of the first level of mental stability (the first dhyana).. | shes-rab-kyi spyan | |
| außersinnliches fleischliches Auge | extrasensory flesh eye | Cognition that is able to see great distances without obstruction, to see through solid objects such as walls, to see in all directions at the same time, and so on. One of the five extrasensory eyes gained as a byproduct of the attainment of an actual state of the first level of mental stability (the first dhyana). | sha'i spyan | |
| außersinnliches göttliches Auge | extrasensory divine eye | Cognition that is able to “see,” in the sense of know, future rebirths. One of the five extrasensory eyes gained as a byproduct of the attainment of an actual state of the first level of mental stability (the first dhyana). | lha'i spyan | |
| außersinnliche Wahrnehmung | extrasensory perception | See: advanced awareness. | ||
| Ausstrahlungskörper | Corpus of Emanations | The network of grosser forms, which are emanations of a Buddha's Corpus of Full Use, and in which a Buddha appears in order to teach ordinary beings with the karma to be able to meet with them. Also translated sometimes as "Emanation Body." | sprul-sku | nirmanakaya |
| ausübendes Bodhichitta | engaged bodhichitta | A mind of bodhichitta which, when focused on one's own individual not-yet-happening enlightenment, imputable on the basis of the Buddha-nature factors of one's mental continuum, is committed to attaining that enlightenment by having taken bodhisattva vows and which then enters into the type of behavior that will bring one to enlightenment. Alternative Tibetan: 'jug-pa'i sems-bskyed. | 'jug-sems | |
| ausübendes Bodhichitta | engaged bodhichitta | See: engaged bodhichitta, Tib. 'jug-pa'i sems-bskyed. | 'jug-pa'i sems-bskyed | |
| automatisch / gleichzeitig | pervasion | The intersection of two sets of phenomena. | khyab-pa | |
| automatisch auftretend, automatisch erscheinend | automatically arising | Naturally arising or occurring on a mental continuum from time to time, without being based on previously having been taught an incorrect tenet system. When something, such as a constructive or a disturbing emotion automatically arises, it does so from a tendency for that emotion, built up from previous occurrences of the same emotion, and does not entail the occurrence or production of an emotion that has never occurred before. | lhan-skyes | sahaja |
| automatisch erscheinende Ignoranz | automatically arising ignorance | See: automatically arising unawareness. | ||
| automatisch erscheinende störende Emotionen und Geisteshaltungen | automatically arising disturbing emotions and attitudes | Disturbing emotions and attitudes that arise on a person's mental continuum without being based on that person having been taught an incorrect tenet system. | nyon-mongs lhan-skyes | |
| automatisch erscheinende Unwissenheit | automatically arising unawareness | The mental factor of either not knowing or knowing invertedly either behavioral cause and effect or the manner in which the self and all phenomena exist, and which arises on a person's mental continuum without being based on that person having been taught an incorrect tenet system. Others often translate it as "automatically arising ignorance" or "innate ignorance." | ma-rigs lhan-skyes | |
| Axiome, vier | axioms, four | See: four axioms. |