84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྣམ་སྣང་། | Glossary of Terms

  • བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན།

  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་བར་བྱེད་པ།
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • རྣམ་སྣང་།
  • རྣམ་སྣང་མཛད།
  • སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam snang
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • bai ro tsa na
  • rnam snang mdzad
  • snang mdzad
  • rnam par snang bar byed pa
  • vairocana
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Publications: 20
Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

A thus-gone one to whom the Bodhisattva felt devotion in a past life.

Translation by Lowell Cook
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

Vairocana (Brilliance of the Sun) is a buddha who inhabits the buddhafield Suprabhā.

Translation by Gyurmé Avertin
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

A buddha.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Timothy Hinkle
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

In the Ratnaketudhāraṇī, he is one of the six “directional” tathāgatas; also, one of the future buddhas.

Translation by David Jackson
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Translation by Joshua Capitanio
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་བར་བྱེད་པ།
  • rnam par snang bar byed pa
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

“Completely Illuminating.” A buddha.

Translation by Reverend Dr. Chodrung-ma Kunga Chodron
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

Chief of one of the five families of buddhas.

Translation by Lowell Cook
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

Vairocana is a buddha who inhabits a buddhafield. This buddhafield is specifically said to be Suprabhā in Toh 44-37 and Toh 104. He also appears in Toh 44-37 with the name Vairocanagarbha.

Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
  • Vairocana
  • སྣང་མཛད།
  • snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

A future buddha.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་སྣང་མཛད།
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam snang mdzad
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

A sambhogakāya buddha personifying (in the systems taught in the Sampuṭodbhava) the true nature of the aggregate of form.

Translation by James Gentry
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་སྣང་།
  • rnam snang
  • vairocana
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

One of the five buddhas; in the system followed in the CMT, he is in the eastern quarter of the maṇḍala.

Translation by James Gentry
  • Vairocana
  • སྣང་མཛད།
  • snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Translation by Stefan Mang · Roger Espel Llima · Ryan Conlon · Paul Thomas
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

The name of a buddha. Vairocana is the tathāgata at the head of the tathāgata family among the five families.

Translation by Stefan Mang · Lowell Cook · Ryan Conlon · Paul Thomas · Roger Espel Llima
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

The name of a buddha. Vairocana is the tathāgata at the head of the tathāgata family among the five families.

Translation by Stefan Mang · Laura Dainty · Ryan Conlon · Paul Thomas · Roger Espel Llima
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

The name of a buddha. Vairocana is the tathāgata at the head of the tathāgata family among the five families.

Translation by Stefan Mang · Laura Dainty · Ryan Conlon · Paul Thomas · Roger Espel Llima
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

The name of a buddha. Vairocana is the tathāgata at the head of the tathāgata family among the five families.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Anna Zilman · Andreas Doctor · Adam Krug
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • རྣམ་སྣང་མཛད།
  • སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • rnam snang mdzad
  • snang mdzad
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

One of the tathāgatas.

Translation by Laura Dainty · Khenpo Tsöndrü Sangpo
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • bai ro tsa na
  • vairocana
Definition in this text:

One of the five primary tathāgatas, he presides over the tathāgata family.

Translation by Catherine Dalton
  • Vairocana
  • རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
  • rnam par snang mdzad
  • vairocana AD
Definition in this text:

The name of a buddha. He is of special importance in the Yoga Tantras, and is at the head of the tathāgata family among the five tathāgata families.