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མཚན་མ་མེད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ།
- མཚན་མ་མ་མཆིས་པ།
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- mtshan ma ma mchis pa
- mtshan nyid med pa
- animitta
- ānimitta
- nirlakṣaṇa
- nirnimitta
- animittatā
- Term
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- ānimitta
- animitta
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
Second of the three gateways to liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
The second of the three doorways to liberation. The other two are emptiness (śūnyatā; stong pa nyid) and wishlessness (apraṇihita; smon pa med pa).
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
- 無相
One of the three doors of liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
The absence of the conceptual identification of perceptions. One of the three doors of liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
Meditative concentration which views the five aggregates, the basis for the conception of a self, as faulty; the second of the three doors of liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gates of liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation; the ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation; the ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animittatā
In ultimate reality, there is no sign, as a sign signals or signifies something to someone and hence is inextricably involved with the relative world. We are so conditioned by signs that they seem to speak to us as if they had a voice of their own. The letter “A” seems to pronounce itself to us as we see it, and the stop-sign fairly shouts at us. However, the configuration of two slanted lines with a crossbar has in itself nothing whatsoever to do with the phenomenon made with the mouth and throat in the open position, when expulsion of breath makes the vocal cords resonate “ah.” By extending such analysis to all signs, we may get an inkling of what is meant by “signlessness,” which is essentially equivalent to voidness, and to “wishlessness” (see entry). Voidness, signlessness, and wishlessness form the “Three Doors of Liberation.”
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways of liberation: emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation; the ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation; the ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects.
- signlessness
- མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ།
- mtshan nyid med pa
- animitta
Second of the three gates to liberation, the first being emptiness and the third wishlessness.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
The ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects. One of the three gateways to liberation; the other two are emptiness and wishlessness.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three terms associated with the nature of reality in the context of the three gateways to liberation.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation, it is the ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects.
- signlessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- ānimitta
- animitta
- absence of marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
- 空相
The ultimate absence of marks and signs in perceived objects; one of the three gateways of liberation.
- absence of marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
- 無相
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- absence of marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- absence of marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation.
- absence of marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways of liberation.
- absence of marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
The absence of the conceptual identification of perceptions, knowing that the true nature has no attributes, such as color or shape. One of the three gateways of liberation.
- absence of attributes
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
The absence of the conceptual identification of perceptions. Knowing that the true nature has no attributes, such as color, shape, etc. One of the three doorways to liberation.
- absence of attributes
- མཚན་མ་མ་མཆིས་པ།
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma ma mchis pa
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
The absence of the conceptual identification of perceptions. Knowing that the true nature has no attributes, such as color, shape, etc. One of the three doorways to liberation.
- absence of characteristics
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gateways to liberation along with emptiness and absence of wishes.
- absence of phenomenal marks
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- —
- appearancelessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
One of the three gates of liberation along with emptiness and wishlessness.
- lack of defining characteristics
- མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ།
- mtshan nyid med pa
- nirlakṣaṇa
- marklessness
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
- 空相
See glossary entry for “absence of marks.”
- signless
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- nirnimitta
Also translated here as “without mental images.”
- without defining marks
- མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ།
- mtshan nyid med pa
- —
- without signs
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- mtshan ma med pa
- animitta
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.