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ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག | Glossary of Terms
ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
chos kyi mig
dharmacakṣu
- Term
- Dharma eye
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣu
One of the five eyes.
- Dharma eye
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣus
This term refers to an advanced mode of insight into the nature of reality.
- Dharma eye
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣus
One of the “five eyes,” representing superior insights of the buddhas and bodhisattvas. The five eyes consist of five different faculties of vision: the physical eye (Skt. māṃsacakṣus), the divine eye (Skt. divyacakṣus), the wisdom eye (Skt. prajñācakṣus), the Dharma eye (Skt. dharmacakṣus), and the Buddha eye (Skt. buddhacakṣus).
- Dharma-eye
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣu
One of the “five eyes,” representing superior insights of the buddhas and bodhisattvas. The five eyes consist of five different faculties of vision: the physical eye (māṃsacakṣu), the divine eye (dīvyacakṣu), the wisdom eye (prajñācakṣu), the Dharma-eye (dharmacakṣu), and the Buddha-eye (buddhacakṣu).
- Eye of Dharma
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣus
The capacity of awakened beings to comprehend the inherent truth of impermanence.
- Eye of the doctrine
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣus
One of the five eyes: (1) the eye of flesh, (2) the eye of clairvoyance, (3) the eye of discernment, (4) the eye of the doctrine, and (5) the eye of the buddhas.
- Eye of the sacred doctrine
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག
- chos kyi mig
- dharmacakṣuḥ
Fourth of the five eyes. See UT22084-031-002-1119.
- Spiritual insight
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་མིག་པ།
- chos kyi mig pa
- dharmacakṣus
Literally “Dharma eye,” this term refers to different, advanced modes of insight into the nature of reality.