ཆོས། | Glossary of Terms

See “dharma.”

See “Dharma.”

Quality or phenomenon in a general sense. See entry “Dharma.”

Also translated as “righteousness” and “Dharma” (see entry for “Dharma and Vinaya”).

One of the meanings of the Skt. term “dharma.” This applies to “phenomena” or “things” in general, and, more specifically, “mental phenomena” which are the object of the mental faculty (manas, yid). See also “worldly phenomena” and “transcendent phenomena.”

One of the meanings of the Skt. term “dharma.”

See “dharma.”

The term dharma has many different interrelated meanings: it may refer to the teaching of the buddhas, to religious teachings in general, to phenomena in general, or to the specific characteristics of an object or objects in a generic sense, among other meanings. In our translation of the Bhava­saṅkrānti­sūtra, we have translated this term as “phenomena,” as it is generally used in this latter sense; however, we have translated the term as “Dharma” when it specifically refers to the teaching of the Buddha.

See “dharma.”