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འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད། | Glossary of Terms
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འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- ’jig rten chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
- aṣṭalokadharmāḥ
- Term
- eight worldly concerns
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharmāḥ
Hoping for happiness, fame, praise, and gain, and fearing suffering, insignificance, blame, and loss.
- eight worldly concerns
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
Hoping for happiness, fame, praise, and gain, and fearing suffering, insignificance, blame, and loss.
- eight worldly concerns
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
Hoping for happiness, fame, praise, and gain; and fearing suffering, insignificance, blame, and loss.
- eight worldly concerns
- འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
Gain (Tib. rnyed pa; Skt. lābha) and loss (Tib. ma rnyed pa; Skt. alābha), fame (Tib. snyan pa; Skt. yaśas) and lack of fame (Tib. ma snyan pa; Skt. ayaśas), praise (Tib. bstod pa; Skt. praśaṃsā) and blame (Tib. smad pa; Skt. nindā), pleasure (Tib. bde ba; Skt. sukha), and sorrow (Tib. sdug bsngal; Skt. duḥkha).
- eight worldly concerns
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
Hoping for happiness, fame, praise, and gain and fearing suffering, insignificance, blame, and loss.
- eight mundane concerns
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
Hoping for happiness, fame, praise and gain and fearing suffering, insignificance, blame and loss.
- eight worldly dharmas
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད།
- ’jig rten gyi chos brgyad
- aṣṭalokadharma
The eight “worldly dharmas” (lokadharmāḥ) are the conditions that operate like laws of nature (dharma) ruling an ordinary person’s life (loka). They are explained at (UT23703-093-001-15009) as “attaining, fame, pleasure, and praise, which give rise to mental attachment in an ordinary person; and the four of not attaining, infamy, blame, and pain, which give rise to depression.”