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ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ། | Glossary of Terms
ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
phyir mi ldog pa
avinivartanīya
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- Irreversible
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivarttika
- Irreversible
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avinivarta
- avaivartika
- avinivartanīya
- Irreversible
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
- 不退轉
- Irreversible
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- mi ldog pa
- —
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.
- Irreversible
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
The term avaivartika should not be confused with anāgamin. While the first is a Mahāyāna term referring to someone “not turning back,” i.e., irreversibly established on the path to full awakening, the other is a term referring to one who will not return to this world again after death but will attain arhatship in one of the highest heavens.
- Irreversibility
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ་ཉིད།
- phyir mi ldog pa nyid
- avaivartikatva
A stage in the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back.
- Irreversibility
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avinivartanīya
A stage in the gradual progression toward buddhahood, from which one will no longer regress to lower states.
- Nonregression
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avinivarta
- avaivartika
A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.
- Nonregression
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.
- Irreversibility of spiritual progress
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
- Irreversibly
- སླར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- slar mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
Name of the bhūmis from the path of seeing on, from which point there is no regression.
- Irreversibly established on the path to buddhahood
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
The term avaivartika should not be confused with anāgamin. While the first is a Mahāyāna term referring to someone “not turning back,” i.e., irreversibly established on the path to full awakening, the other is a Hīnayāna term referring to an arhat of the third level who will not return to this world again.
- Non-regression
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartikatva
A stage in the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back.
- Not regress
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
The third stage on the path to arhat-ship; a non-returner who will no longer be reborn into saṃsāra.
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.
- Not turning back
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
See “irreversible.”
- One who would no longer regress
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ།
- phyir mi ldog pa
- avaivartika
The stage on a bodhisattva’s path when there is no longer any chance of regressing to a preceding stage or state.