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སྒྲུབ་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- སྒྲུབ་པ།
- སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས།
- sgrub pa
- sgrub thabs
- sgrub pa’i thabs
- sādhana
- Term
Derived from the Sanskrit verb √sādh, “to accomplish,” the term sādhana most generically refers to any method that brings about the accomplishment of a desired goal. In Buddhist literature, the term is often specifically applied to tantric practices that involve ritual engagement with deities, mantra recitation, the visualized creation and dissolution of deity maṇḍalas, etc. Sādhanas are aimed at both actualizing spiritual attainments (siddhi) and reaching liberation. The Tibetan translation sgrub thabs means “method of accomplishment.”
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana
The method of practice. Experiential methods for actualizing spiritual attainments and liberation.
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana
Practice involving mantra and visualization.
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana
A formal practice usually organized into sessions, which involves mantra and visualization.
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས།
- sgrub pa’i thabs
- sādhana
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས།
- sgrub pa’i thabs
- sādhana
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་པ།
- sgrub pa
- sādhana
Formal practice done in sessions; in the context of the AP this can be any ritual practice aiming for a particular result.
- sādhana
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana
Ritual practice organized into sessions and dedicated to a particular goal; the act of achieving or accomplishing one’s purpose in general.
- means for attainment
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana
- means of accomplishment
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana
- practice
- སྒྲུབ་པ།
- sgrub pa
- sādhana
See “sādhana.”
- practice manual
- སྒྲུབ་ཐབས།
- sgrub thabs
- sādhana