མི་སྐྱེ་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་བཟོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the eighth ground of the bodhisattvas.

Bodhisattvas’ realization that all phenomena are unoriginated and empty. It sustains them on the difficult path of benefitting all beings so that they do not succumb to the goal of personal liberation. Different sources link this realization to the first or eighth bodhisattva level (bhūmi).

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the eighth ground of the bodhisattvas.

An attainment of effortless insight into emptiness and the lack of birth of phenomena. This attainment only occurs on the bodhisattva levels, variously said to occur on the first and eighth bodhisattva levels.

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the eighth ground of the bodhisattvas.

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the eighth ground of bodhisattvas.

An attainment of effortless insight into emptiness and the lack of birth of phenomena. This attainment only occurs on the bodhisattva levels, variously said to occur on the first and eighth bodhisattva levels.

The realization that all phenomena are beyond birth.

The attainment of effortless and spontaneous insight into emptiness and the lack of birth of phenomena. Attained by a bodhisattva on the 8th level.

Bodhisattvas’ realization that all phenomena are unproduced and empty. It sustains them on the difficult path of benefitting all beings so that they do not succumb to the goal of personal liberation. Different sources link this realization to the first or eighth bodhisattva level (bhūmi).

The particular realization that all phenomena are beyond birth.

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the eighth ground of the bodhisattvas.

The name of a meditative state associated with the path of seeing after which a bodhisattva’s progress on the path is irreversible.

An attainment characteristic of the effortless and spontaneous wakefulness of the 8th ground of the bodhisattvas.

The stage of acceptance that is associated with the realization of an eighth bhūmi bodhisattva.

The acceptance of or receptivity to the nonorigination of phenomena. This realization is attained by bodhisattvas on the eighth spiritual level on the Path of Seeing (darśana­mārga).

Bodhisattvas’ realization that all phenomena are unproduced and empty. It sustains them on the difficult path of benefiting all beings so that they do not succumb to the goal of personal liberation. Different sources link this realization to the first or eighth bodhisattva ground (bhūmi).

A bodhisattva’s realization that all phenomena are unproduced and empty. This attainment is variously said to occur on either the first or eighth bodhisattva level.

The forbearance to accept and understand the nonarising of phenomena, attained by a bodhisattva on the eighth level (see UT22084-062-018-183).

Here we are concerned with the “intuitive tolerance of the birthlessness (or incomprehensibility) of all things” (anutpattika­dharma­kṣānti or anupalabdhi­dharma­kṣānti). To translate kṣānti as “knowledge” or “conviction” defeats entirely the Skt. usage and its intended sense: In the face of birthlessness or incomprehensibility (i.e., the ultimate reality), ordinary knowledge and especially convictions are utterly lost; this is because the mind loses objectifiability of anything and has nothing to grasp, and its process of coming to terms may be described only as a conscious cancellation through absolute negations of any false sense of certainty about anything. Through this tolerance, the mind reaches a stage where it can bear its lack of bearings, as it were, can endure this kind of extreme openness, this lack of any conviction, etc. There are three degrees of this tolerance‍—verbal (ghoṣānugā), conforming (anulomikī), and complete. See Introduction, UT22084-060-005-19, and Lamotte, Appendice, Note III.

See “tolerance of the birthlessness of things.”