རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- rtogs pa brjod pa’i sde
- avadāna
- Term
One of the twelve types of the Buddha’s teaching (dvādaśāṅga). In this sense, the Sanskrit word avadāna means “exceptional feat” or “magnificent deed,” but in the context of the twelve types of buddhavacana the term came to refer to the narrative accounts of such deeds.
- avadāna
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- avadāna
A type of Buddhist biographical tale, typically including a story of the present and a story of a past life and the karmic connection between them. It is listed as one of the twelve types of Buddhist literature.
- avadāna
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- avadāna
As one of the twelve aspects of Dharma, it means stories of previous lives of beings.
See also “twelve wheels of the Dharma.”
- avadāna
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- avadāna
A popular genre of Buddhist literature; the Sanskrit has been translated as “heroic action” by Léon Feer. With regard to structure, avadānas are similar to the jātakas, with the difference that the protagonist of an avadāna usually is not the Buddha (with the exception of Kṣemendra’s Bodhisattvāvadānamālā). They often present moral tales or illustrations of the law of karma.
See “Exemplary Tale.”
- Exemplary Tale
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- avadāna
- biographies
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa’i sde
- avadāna
- 阿波陀那
One of the twelve branches of Buddhist scriptures.
- biographies
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa’i sde
- avadāna
One of the twelve branches of Buddhist scriptures.
- narratives
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- avadāna
Ninth of the twelve branches of the scriptures.
- narratives
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa’i sde
- avadāna
One among the twelve sections of scripture.
- illustrative accounts
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa’i sde
- avadāna
- narrative discourses
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa’i sde
- avadāna
One of the “twelve branches of excellent speech.”
- tale
- རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།
- rtogs pa brjod pa
- avadāna