སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ། | Glossary of Terms

The ultimate absence of any wish, desire, or aspiration, even those directed towards buddhahood. One of the three gateways to liberation; the other two are emptiness and signlessness.

The third of the three doorways to liberation. The other two are emptiness (śūnyatā; stong pa nyid) and signlessness (animitta; mtshan ma med pa).

The absence of conceptual modes of mind; one of the three gateways of liberation.

One of the threedoors of liberation.

The absence of any conceptual goal that one is focused upon achieving. One of the three doors of liberation.

Meditative concentration which views nirvāṇa, which is the complete pacification of the aggregates; the third of the Three Doors of Liberation.

One of the three gateways to liberation.

One of the three gates of liberation along with appearancelessness and emptiness.

One of the three gates of liberation.

One of the three gateways to liberation; the ultimate absence of any wish, desire, or aspiration, even those directed towards buddhahood.

One of the three gateways to liberation; the absence of conceptual modes of mind.

Third of the Three Doors of Liberation (see glossary). Objectively, it is equivalent to voidness; subjectively, it is the outcome of the holy gnosis of voidness as the realization of the ultimate lack of anything to wish for, whether voidness itself, or even Buddhahood. See “emptiness.”

One of the three gateways of liberation: emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness.

One of the three gateways to liberation; the absence of conceptual modes of mind.

One of the three gateways to liberation; the absence of conceptual modes of mind.

The ultimate absence of any wish, desire, or aspiration, even those directed towards buddhahood. One of the three gateways to liberation; the other two are emptiness and signlessness.

One of the three terms associated with the nature of reality in the context of the three gateways to liberation.

One of the three gateways to liberation, it is the absence of any conceptual goal one may be focused on achieving; it comes about from knowing that all composite phenomena create suffering.

The ultimate absence of any wish, desire, or aspiration, even those directed towards buddhahood. One of the three gateways to liberation; the other two are emptiness and signlessness.

One of the three gateways to liberation.

One of the three gateways to liberation.

One of the three gateways to liberation along with emptiness and absence of characteristics.

One of the three gateways to liberation.

The absence of any conceptual goal that one is focused upon achieving, knowing that all composite phenomena create suffering. One of the three gateways of liberation.

The absence of any conceptual goal that one is focused upon achieving, knowing that all composite phenomena create suffering. One of the three doorways to liberation.

The absence of any conceptual goal that one is focused upon achieving, knowing that all composite phenomena create suffering. One of the three doorways to liberation.

Third of the three gateways to liberation.

Emptiness (stong pa nyid), signlessness (mtshan ma med pa), and wishlessness (smon pa med pa) are known as the “three doors to deliverance” (triṇi­vimokṣa­mukhāni) or the “three concentrations” (trayaḥ samādhyaḥ) and as a set appear in both mainstream Buddhist sūtras and Mahāyāna sūtras. See Conze 1962, pp. 59–69; Lamotte 1944, pp. 1213–15; and Deleanu 2000, pp. 74–78.