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བསམ་པ། | Glossary of Terms
བསམ་པ།
bsam pa
āśaya
- Term
Publications: 7
Translation by Dr. Karen Liljenberg
- Intention
- བསམ་པ།
- bsam pa
Translation by Gregory Forgues
- Intention
- བསམ་པ།
- bsam pa
- āśaya
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Wish
- བསམ་པ།
- bsam pa
- abhiprāya
Translation by Celso Wilkinson · Laura Goetz · L.S. Summer
- Wish
- བསམ་པ།
- bsam pa
- abhiprāya
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- Ambition
- བསམ་པ།
- bsam pa
- abhiprāya
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- Aspiration
- བསམ་པ།
- སེམས་པ།
- bsam pa
- sems pa
- āśaya
Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman
- Positive thought
- བསམ་པ།
- bsam pa
- āśaya
In general, a joyous attitude to help living beings and accomplish virtue. This is also the first stirring in the bodhisattva’s mind of the inspiration to attain enlightenment (see “high resolve”). See Lamotte, Appendice, Note II.