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བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག | Glossary of Terms
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
byang chub kyi yan lag
bodhyaṅga
- Term
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
In this text, this set of factors is said to include discipline, insight, absorption, liberation, the vision of liberated wisdom, the perfection of generosity, the perfection of discipline, the perfection of patience, the perfection of diligence, the perfection of concentration, and the perfection of insight. However, usually they are listed as seven, namely remembrance, discrimination between teachings, diligence, joy, pliancy or serenity, absorption, and equanimity; these form a part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
- 覺分
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
There are seven branches of awakening: mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliancy, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The aspects that constitute the path of seeing, namely remembrance, discrimination between teachings, diligence, joy, pliancy or serenity, absorption, and equanimity. These form a part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅgāni
The seven branches of awakening are: (1) correct mindfulness, (2) correct discrimination of dharmas, (3) correct vigor, (4) correct joy, (5) correct flexibility, (6) correct concentration, and (7) correct equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The aspects that constitute the path of seeing, namely mindfulness, analysis of phenomena, diligence, joy, pliancy, absorption, and sameness. These form a part of the thirty-seven factors to enlightenment.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Refers here to the seven branches of awakening belonging to the thirty-seven factors conducive to awakening: mindfulness, analysis of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, samādhi, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- byang chub yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, ease, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
See “seven branches of awakening.”
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Recollection, analysis of the dharmas, diligence, joy, pliancy, absorption, equanimity. These are among the thirty-seven factors of awakening.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, and equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliancy, absorption, and equanimity. These seven are part of the thirty-seven factors of awakening.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven branches of awakening are mindfulness, analysis of the dharmas, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, equanimity. These are included in the thirty-seven factors of enlightenment.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven branches of awakening are: mindfulness, analysis of the dharmas, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, equanimity.
- Branches of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven branches of awakening, belonging to the thirty-seven aids to awakening, are mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, meditative stabilization, equanimity, and pliancy.
- Limbs of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅgāni
See “seven limbs of awakening.”
- Limbs of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Traditionally there are seven limbs of awakening (saptabodhyaṅga) of an awakened one—mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, pliability, absorption, and equanimity.
- Limbs of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Recollection, analysis, diligence, joy, pliancy, absorption, and equanimity.
- Limbs of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
See “seven limbs of awakening.”
- Limbs of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Traditionally there are seven such limbs: mindfulness, investigation of reality, energy, contentment, relaxation of bodhi and mind, samādhi, and equanimity.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Limbs of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡན་ལག
- བོ་དྷྱཾ་ག
- byang chub yan lag
- bo d+h+yaM ga
- bodhyaṅga
Seven factors conducive to attaining realization: mindfulness, discernment, diligence, joy, peaceful repose, samādhi, and equanimity.
- Factors of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Mindfulness, discrimination, diligence, joy, ease, absorption, and equanimity.
- Factors of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
These are factors that constitute the path of seeing.
- Factors of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡན་ལག
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub yan lag
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven factors of awakening are listed in The Teaching on the Great Compassion of the Tathāgata as correct mindfulness, correct investigation of phenomena, correct vigor, correct joy, correct serenity, correct meditative absorption, and correct equanimity.
- Factors of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
See “seven precious factors of perfect awakening.”
- Limbs of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven limbs of enlightenment are mindfulness, analysis of phenomena, diligence, joy, tranquility, and samādhi. Also translated here as “aspects of enlightenment.”
- Limbs of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
There are seven limbs of enlightenment: correct mindfulness, correct wisdom of the analysis of phenomena, correct diligence, correct joy, correct serenity, correct samādhi, and correct equanimity.
- Limbs of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Apparently a reference to either the seven limbs of enlightenment or the thirty-seven wings of enlightenment.
- Aspects of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven aspects of enlightenment are mindfulness, analysis of phenomena, diligence, joy, tranquility, and samādhi. Also translated here as “limbs of enlightenment.”
- Aspects of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
The seven aspects of enlightenment are: mindfulness, analysis of phenomena, diligence, joy, tranquility, samādhi, and equanimity.
- Branches of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
Also rendered here as “branches of genuine enlightenment.” See “seven branches of enlightenment.”
- Branches of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅgāni
The branches of (1) authentic mindfulness, (2) authentic discrimination of dharmas, (3) authentic perseverance, (4) authentic joy, (5) authentic serenity, (6) authentic meditative absorption, and (7) authentic equanimity.
- Branch of perfect awakening
- ཡང་དག་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- yang dag byang chub kyi yan lag
- sambodhyaṅga
One of seven qualities cultivated on the path of seeing: mindfulness, discernment, diligence, joy, ease, absorption, equanimity.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Factors of enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
- Limb of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅga
See “seven limbs of awakening.”
- Parts of awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- bodhyaṅgāni
See “seven parts of awakening.”