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དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན། | Glossary of Terms
དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
dge ba’i bshes gnyen
kalyāṇamitra
- Term
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A spiritual teacher who can contribute to an individual’s progress on the spiritual path to awakening and act wholeheartedly for the welfare of students.
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
- 善知識
A personal tutor on spiritual matters; a spritual guide.
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་ཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i shes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
Literally, “virtuous friend.” A spiritual teacher who can contribute to an individual’s progress on the spiritual path to awakening and act wholeheartedly for the welfare of students. See Introduction UT22084-061-005-5.
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A personal tutor on spiritual matters; a spiritual guide.
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A spiritual teacher who can contribute to an individual’s progress on the spiritual path to awakening and act wholeheartedly for the welfare of students.
- Spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A spiritual teacher who can contribute to an individual’s progress on the spiritual path to awakening and act wholeheartedly for the welfare of students.
- Kalyāṇamitra
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
The Sanskrit is literally “beneficial friend,” the Tibetan “friend of virtue.” A title for a teacher of the spiritual path.
- Kalyāṇamitra
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
The Sanskrit can mean “good friend” or “beneficial friend.” The Tibetan can mean “virtuous friend” or “friend of virtue.” A title for a teacher of the spiritual path.
- Kalyāṇamitra
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
The Sanskrit can mean “good friend” or “beneficial friend.” The Tibetan can mean “virtuous friend” or “friend of virtue.” A title for a teacher of the spiritual path.
- Kalyāṇamitra
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A title for a teacher of the spiritual path.
- Kalyāṇamitra
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A title for a teacher of the spiritual path, often translated “spiritual friend.”
- Virtuous spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A spiritual mentor.
- Virtuous spiritual friend
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A general term to denote a qualified spiritual teacher.
- Spiritual benefactor
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A Mahāyāna teacher is termed “friend,” or “benefactor,” which indicates that a bodhisattva-career depends on one’s own effort and that all a teacher can do is inspire, exemplify, and point the way.
- Spiritual mentor
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra
A spiritual teacher who can contribute to an individual’s progress on the spiritual path to enlightenment and act wholeheartedly for the welfare of students.
- Virtuous spiritual teacher
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན།
- dge ba’i bshes gnyen
- kalyāṇamitra