Abbot
abbot The abbot is the head of a monastery. One Chinese term for abbot, fangzhang ‘ten feet square’ is a term used primarily in Chan monasteries and refers to the ideal sizeRead More…
abbot The abbot is the head of a monastery. One Chinese term for abbot, fangzhang ‘ten feet square’ is a term used primarily in Chan monasteries and refers to the ideal sizeRead More…
Buddhism/Buddhadharma The Buddhadharma is subtle, wonderful, and difficult to measure. No words or speech are able to reach it. It is not combined, nor is it uncombined. In substance and nature itRead More…
“Bodhisattva (bodhi = enlightenment + sattva = being) is a Sanskrit word which can be interpreted in two ways: 1) Enlightener of Sentient Beings. The Bodhisattva takes the enlightenment that he hasRead More…
‘Corpus of Manifest Enlightenment‘ is called in Buddhist Sanskrit as the Abhisambodhikaya. According to some Dzogchen systems, the appearance-making aspect of the deep awareness of a Buddha‘s pure appearance. In other words, theRead More…
See Corpus of Manifest Enlightenment.
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 “riddance” Read More…
See abandonments.
The lasting, enduring nature of all phenomena; the emptiness of all phenomena. J. Hopkins’ translation: “mode of subsistence.”
Three Pitakas (Skt. tripiṭaka; Tib. སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་, Wyl. sde snod gsum) — the three collections or ‘baskets’ into which the Word of the Buddha is divided. They are the Vinaya, SutraRead More…
WATER: (sound + touch + sight +) taste; as in eating food, we need saliva to dissolve and perceive the food itself. Gunas: Heavy (because always responds to gravity by going fromRead More…