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སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- སྨོན་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- smon med pa
- apraṇihita
- apraṇihitatā
- Term
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
The third of the three doorways to liberation. The other two are emptiness (śūnyatā; stong pa nyid) and signlessness (animitta; mtshan ma med pa).
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
- 無願
The absence of conceptual modes of mind; one of the three gateways of liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
- 無願
One of the threedoors of liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
The absence of any conceptual goal that one is focused upon achieving. One of the three doors of liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
Meditative concentration which views nirvāṇa, which is the complete pacification of the aggregates; the third of the Three Doors of Liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gates of liberation along with appearancelessness and emptiness.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gates of liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation; the ultimate absence of any wish, desire, or aspiration, even those directed towards buddhahood.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation; the absence of conceptual modes of mind.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihitatā
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.”
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways of liberation: emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation; the absence of conceptual modes of mind.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation; the absence of conceptual modes of mind.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three terms associated with the nature of reality in the context of the three gateways to liberation.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- wishlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- absence of wishes
- སྨོན་མེད་པ།
- smon med pa
- apraṇihita
- 無願相
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- absence of wishes
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- absence of wishes
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation along with emptiness and absence of characteristics.
- absence of wishes
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- absence of wishes
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
One of the three gateways of liberation.
- absence of wishes
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- absence of aspiration
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- absence of aspiration
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- aspirationlessness
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
Third of the three gateways to liberation.
- wishless
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita
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.
- without aspiration
- སྨོན་པ་མེད་པ།
- smon pa med pa
- apraṇihita