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བྱང་ཆུབ། | Glossary of Terms
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བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
- Term
- awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
- awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
I.e., awakening to the reality of phenomena (inner and outer) as they actually are.
- awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
Awakening refers to the state of realization and understanding possessed by a buddha regarding the nature of things.
- awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
This may be awakening in the literal sense, as from sleep, but in the Buddhist context it is the awakening from ignorance, i.e., the direct realization of truth.
- awakening
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
The realization of truth that is nondual and beyond concepts.
- enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
- enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
The Sanskrit can mean knowledge, realization, waking, blossoming, etc., according to context. The Tibetan translates as “purified and accomplished.”
- enlightenment
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
This word requires too much explanation for this glossary because, indeed, the whole sūtra—and the whole of Buddhist literature—is explanatory of only this. Here we simply mention the translation equivalent.
- bodhi
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
In general the Sanskrit means “awakening,” as from sleep, but in the Buddhist context it is the awakening from ignorance, i.e., the direct realization of truth.
- Bodhi
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- byang chub
- bodhi
Lit. “awakening.”