Unraveling the Intent
Glossary
Toh 106
Degé Kangyur, vol. 49 (mdo sde, ca), folios 1.b–55.b
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Table of Contents
Summary
In Unraveling the Intent, the Buddha gives a systematic overview of his three great cycles of teachings, which he refers to in this text as the “three Dharma wheels” (tridharmacakra). In the process of delineating the meaning of these doctrines, the Buddha unravels several difficult points regarding the ultimate and relative truths, the nature of reality, and the contemplative methods conducive to the attainment of complete and perfect awakening, and he also explains what his intent was when he imparted teachings belonging to each of the three Dharma wheels. In unambiguous terms, the third wheel is proclaimed to be of definitive meaning. Through a series of dialogues with hearers and bodhisattvas, the Buddha thus offers a complete and systematic teaching on the Great Vehicle, which he refers to here as the Single Vehicle.
Acknowledgements
Translation by the Buddhavacana Translation Group.
The text was translated by Gregory Forgues and edited by Casey Kemp. With special thanks to Harunaga Isaacson, Matthew Kapstein, Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Jonathan Silk, Lambert Schmithausen, Tom Tillemans, and William Waldron for their helpful comments and advice.
The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
The generous sponsorship of Qiang Li (李强) and Ya Wen (文雅), which helped make the work on this translation possible, is most gratefully acknowledged.
Abbreviations
| Bd | Bardan (Zanskar) canonical collection |
|---|---|
| C | Choné xylograph Kangyur |
| Cbeta | Chinese Electronic Buddhist Association, (www.cbeta.org) |
| Cz | Chizhi Kangyur |
| D | Degé xylograph Kangyur |
| Dd | Dodedrak Kangyur |
| Dk | Dongkarla Kangyur |
| Do | Dolpo canonical collection |
| F | Phukdrak manuscript Kangyur |
| Go | Gondhla (Lahaul) canonical collection |
| Gt | Gangteng Kangyur |
| H | Lhasa xylograph Kangyur |
| He | Hemis I Kangyur |
| J | ’jang sa tham/Lithang xylograph Kangyur |
| Kʙ | Berlin manuscript Kangyur |
| Kǫ774 | Peking 1737 xylograph Kangyur |
| L | London (Shelkar) manuscript Kangyur |
| Lg | Lang mdo Kangyur |
| Mvyut | Mahāvyutpatti |
| N | Narthang xylograph Kangyur |
| Ng | Namgyal Kangyur |
| Np | Neyphug Kangyur |
| O | Tawang Kangyur |
| Pj | Phajoding I Kangyur |
| Pz | Phajoding II Kangyur |
| R | Ragya Kangyur |
| S | Stok manuscript Kangyur |
| Saṃdh. | Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra |
| Saṃdhdh | Dunhuang manuscript: Stein Tib. n°194 (49 folios) and Stein Tib. n°683 (1 folio) (Hakamaya 1984–1987) |
| T | Tokyo manuscript Kangyur |
| Taishō 676 | 解深密經, translated by Xuanzang (596–664 ᴄᴇ) |
| TrBh | Sthiramati’s Triṃśikāvijñaptibhāṣyam |
| U | Urga xylograph Kangyur |
| V | Ulaanbaatar manuscript Kangyur |
| VD | Degé; xylograph of the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi from the Tengyur |
| VG | Golden; xylograph of the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi from the Tengyur |
| VP | Peking; xylograph of the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi from the Tengyur |
| VinSg | Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi |
| X | Basgo manuscript Kangyur |
| YBht P ’i | Tibetan translation of Acarya Asanga’s Yogācārabhūmi from the Peking Tengyur (n°. 5540, sems-tsam, ’i 143aI-382a5 (vol. I l l : 121-217) |
| Z | Shey Palace manuscript Kangyur |
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Glossary
Abiding in phenomena
- chos gnas pa nyid
- ཆོས་གནས་པ་ཉིད།
- dharmasthititā
Absorption
- snyoms par ’jug pa
- སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ།
- samāpatti
Absorption in the state of cessation
- ’gog pa la snyoms par zhugs pa
- འགོག་པ་ལ་སྙོམས་པར་ཞུགས་པ།
- nirodhasamāpatti
Accept
- len
- ལེན།
- ādadante
Acceptance that phenomena are non-arisen
- mi skye ba’i chos la bzod pa
- མི་སྐྱེ་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་བཟོད་པ།
- anutpattidharmakṣānti
Accomplishment of the goal
- dgos pa yongs su grub pa
- དགོས་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་གྲུབ་པ།
- kṛtyānuṣṭhāna
Accumulated
- kun tu bsags pa
- ཀུན་ཏུ་བསགས་པ།
- ācita
Accused
- shag kyis ’chags
- ཤག་ཀྱིས་འཆགས།
- codanā
Activity of conditioning mental factors
- ’du byed kyi ’jug pa
- འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ།
- saṃskārapravṛtti
Actual
- yongs su grub pa
- ཡོངས་སུ་གྲུབ་པ།
- pariniṣpanna
Actual defining characteristic
- yongs su grub pa’i mtshan nyid
- ཡོངས་སུ་གྲུབ་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད།
- pariniṣpannalakṣaṇa
Actual essence
- yongs su grub pa’i ngo bo nyid
- yongs su grub pa’i rang bzhin
- ཡོངས་སུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད།
- ཡོངས་སུ་གྲུབ་པའི་རང་བཞིན།
- pariniṣpannasvabhāva
Actualization
- mngon du bya ba
- མངོན་དུ་བྱ་བ།
- sākṣātkāra
Actually refer to
- mngon par rjod pas rjod pa
- མངོན་པར་རྗོད་པས་རྗོད་པ།
- abhivadamānā
- abhivadanti
Affliction
- kun nas nyon mongs pa
- ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་པ།
- saṃkleśa
Aggregate
- phung pho
- ཕུང་ཕོ།
- skandha
Analysis
- brtag pa
- བརྟག་པ།
- parīkṣā
Analytical knowledge
- so sor yang dag par rig pa
- སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་པར་རིག་པ།
- pratisaṃvid
Analytical knowledge of designations
- chos so sor yang dag par rig pa
- ཆོས་སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་པར་རིག་པ།
- dharmapratisaṃvid
Analytical knowledge of the objects of designation
- don so sor yang dag par rig pa
- དོན་སོ་སོར་ཡང་དག་པར་རིག་པ།
- ārthapratisaṃvid
Analyze
- so sor rtog par byed
- so sor rtog pa
- སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པར་བྱེད།
- སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པ།
- pratyavekṣaṇa
- pratyavekṣa
Anumāṇa
- —
- —
- anumāṇa
Appearance
- snang ba
- སྣང་བ།
- pratibhāsa
Appearancelessness
- mtshan ma med pa
- མཚན་མ་མེད་པ།
- animitta
Applications of mindfulness
- dran pa nye bar gzhag pa
- དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་གཞག་པ།
- smṛtyupasthāna
Appropriating cognition
- len pa’i rnam par shes pa
- ལེན་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ།
- ādānavijñāna
Argumentative disputation
- rtsod pa
- རྩོད་པ།
- vivāda
Aspiration
- smon lam
- སྨོན་ལམ།
- praṇidhāna
Aspiration
- mos pa
- མོས་པ།
- praṇidhāna
Assumption
- mngon par zhen pa
- མངོན་པར་ཞེན་པ།
- abhiniviśanti
Attaining the powers
- stobs bskyed pa
- སྟོབས་བསྐྱེད་པ།
- balādhāna
Attending
- rjes su dpyod pa
- རྗེས་སུ་དཔྱོད་པ།
- anucaranti
Authoritative scripture
- yid ches pa’i lung gi tshad ma
- ཡིད་ཆེས་པའི་ལུང་གི་ཚད་མ།
- āptāgamapramāṇa
Avalokiteśvara
- spyan ras gzigs
- ’phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug
- སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།
- འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག
- Avalokiteśvara
- Āryāvalokiteśvara
Awakening
- byang chub
- བྱང་ཆུབ།
- bodhi
Awakening factors
- byang chub kyi phyogs dang ’thun pa’i chos
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་དང་འཐུན་པའི་ཆོས།
- bodhipakṣyadharma
Awakening mind
- byang chub kyi sems
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས།
- bodhicitta
Awareness
- shes bzhin
- ཤེས་བཞིན།
- samprajāna
Bahuvrīhi
- —
- —
- bahuvrīhi
Bases of supernatural powers
- rdzu ’phrul gyi rkang pa
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་རྐང་པ།
- ṛddhipādaḥ
Belief in a perduring self
- ’jig tshogs la lta ba
- འཇིག་ཚོགས་ལ་ལྟ་བ།
- satkāyadṛṣṭi
Beryl
- bai dUr+ya
- བཻ་དཱུརྱ།
- vaidūrya
Bichiliocosm
- stong gnyis pa bar ma’i ’jig rten gyi khams
- སྟོང་གཉིས་པ་བར་མའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- dvitīyamadhyama sāhasralokadhātu
Binding
- ’ching ba
- འཆིང་བ།
- bandhana
Blessed one
- bcom ldan ’das
- བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས།
- bhagavān
- bhagavat
Body afflicted by corruption
- gnas ngan len gyi lus
- གནས་ངན་ལེན་གྱི་ལུས།
- dauṣṭhulyakāya
Branches of awakening
- byang chub kyi yan lag
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
- bodhyaṅgāni
Bring together
- kun ’byung ba
- ཀུན་འབྱུང་བ།
- samudaya
Buddha field
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- buddhakṣetra
Buddha realm
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- buddhakṣetra
Buddha Stage
- sangs rgyas kyi sa
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས།
- buddhabhūmi
Can [only] be known by intelligent scholars well versed in the subtle
- zhib mo brtags pa’i mkhas pa dang ’dzangs pas rig pa
- ཞིབ་མོ་བརྟགས་པའི་མཁས་པ་དང་འཛངས་པས་རིག་པ།
- sūkṣmaṃ nipuṇapaṇḍitavijñavedanīyaḥ
Causal dependence
- rang dbang med pa
- རང་དབང་མེད་པ།
- asvatantra
Cause and effect
- rgyu dang ’bras bu
- རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུ།
- hetuphala
Changing opinions
- blo gros tha dad pa
- བློ་གྲོས་ཐ་དད་པ།
- matibheda
Characterized by
- rab tu phye ba
- རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ་བ།
- prabhāvita
Clarified butter
- mar gyi snying khu
- མར་གྱི་སྙིང་ཁུ།
- sarpirmaṇḍa
Clear mindfulness
- gsal ba
- གསལ་བ།
- paṭu
Cloud of Dharma
- chos kyi sprin
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྤྲིན།
- dharmameghā
Cognition
- rnam par shes pa
- རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ།
- vijñāna
Cognition that is personal and intuitive
- so sor rang rig pa
- སོ་སོར་རང་རིག་པ།
- pratyātmavedya
- pratyātmavedanīya
- pratyātmajñāna
- prātyatmam
Collection of teachings on the bodhisattva [path]
- byang chub sems dpa’i sde snod
- བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡེ་སྣོད།
- bodhisattvapiṭaka
Communication
- ming du bya ba
- མིང་དུ་བྱ་བ།
- saṃjñāpya
Complete equanimity
- lhag par btang snyoms
- ལྷག་པར་བཏང་སྙོམས།
- adhyupekṣya
Completely
- thams cad kyi thams cad
- ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་ཐམས་ཅད།
- sarveṇa sarvam
Comprehension
- yongs su shes pa
- ཡོངས་སུ་ཤེས་པ།
- parijñā
Concentrated
- mnyam par bzhag pa
- མཉམ་པར་བཞག་པ།
- samāhita
Concentration
- ting nge ’dzin
- ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན།
- samādhi
Conception
- ’du shes
- འདུ་ཤེས།
- saṃjñā
Conception
- rtog pa
- རྟོག་པ།
- kalpanā
Conceptualization
- rnam rtog
- rnam par rtog pa
- རྣམ་རྟོག
- རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ།
- vikalpa
Conceptualize
- gdags pa
- གདགས་པ།
- prajñapti
Conclusive
- gcig tu nges pa
- གཅིག་ཏུ་ངེས་པ།
- aikāntikaḥ
Conditioned
- ’du byas
- འདུ་བྱས།
- saṃskṛta
Conditioned phenomena
- ’du byed
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- saṃskāra
Conditioning mental factors
- ’du byed
- འདུ་བྱེད།
- saṃskāra
Conditioning process of the mental factors
- ’du byed mngon par ’du bya ba
- འདུ་བྱེད་མངོན་པར་འདུ་བྱ་བ།
- saṃskārābhisaṃskaraṇa
Conducive
- grogs
- གྲོགས།
- sahāya
Confined
- rjes su ’brel ba
- རྗེས་སུ་འབྲེལ་བ།
- anubandha
Confusion
- ’khrul pa
- འཁྲུལ་པ།
- bhrānta
Consequence
- chud mi za ba
- ཆུད་མི་ཟ་བ།
- avipraṇa
Consideration
- yongs su rtog pa
- ཡོངས་སུ་རྟོག་པ།
- paritarka
Consisting in
- rab tu phye ba
- རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ་བ།
- prabhāvita
Constancy of phenomena
- chos gnas pa nyid
- ཆོས་གནས་པ་ཉིད།
- dharmasthititā
Constant
- rnam par gnas pa
- རྣམ་པར་གནས་པ།
- vyavasthita
Constituent
- khams
- ཁམས།
- dhātu
Constituted
- rab tu phye ba
- རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ་བ།
- prabhāvita
Contemplation
- bsams pa
- བསམས་པ།
- cintā
Convention
- rjes su tha snyad
- རྗེས་སུ་ཐ་སྙད།
- anuvyavahāra
Conventionally
- brda
- བརྡ།
- saṃketa
Correct concentration
- yang dag pa’i ting nge ’dzin
- ཡང་དག་པའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན།
- samyaksamādhi
Correct self-restraints
- yang dag par spong ba
- ཡང་དག་པར་སྤོང་བ།
- samyakprahāṇa
Corruption
- gnas ngan len
- གནས་ངན་ལེན།
- dauṣṭhulya
Decide
- gdags pa
- གདགས་པ།
- prajñapti
Dedication of merit
- yongs su bsngo ba
- ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བ།
- pariṇāmanā
- pariṇata
Deeper
- phri
- phyi
- ཕྲི།
- ཕྱི།
- —
Deer park
- ri dags kyi nags
- རི་དགས་ཀྱི་ནགས།
- mṛgadāva
Defilement
- nyon mongs pa
- ཉོན་མོངས་པ།
- kleśa
Defining characteristic
- mtshan nyid
- མཚན་ཉིད།
- svabhāvalakṣaṇa
Defining characteristic
- mtshan nyid
- མཚན་ཉིད།
- lakṣaṇa
Delusion
- gti mug
- གཏི་མུག
- moha
Delusion
- kun tu rmongs pa
- rnam par rmongs pa
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྨོངས་པ།
- རྣམ་པར་རྨོངས་པ།
- saṃmoha
Demonstration
- bshad pa
- བཤད་པ།
- deśana
Description
- rnam par bsnyad pa
- རྣམ་པར་བསྙད་པ།
- vyākhyā
Designation
- btags pa
- བཏགས་པ།
- prajñapti
Determination
- rnam par bzhag pa
- རྣམ་པར་བཞག་པ།
- vyavasthā
Dhāraṇī
- gzungs
- གཟུངས།
- dhāraṇī
Dharma discourse
- chos kyi rnam grangs
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས།
- dharmaparyāya
Dharma of the nonexistence of defining characteristics
- mtshan nyid med pa’i chos
- མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པའི་ཆོས།
- alakṣaṇadharma
Dharmodgata
- chos ’phags
- ཆོས་འཕགས།
- Dharmodgata
Differentiating
- rnam par ’byed pa
- རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ།
- vibhājanā
Diligence
- brtson ’grus
- བརྩོན་འགྲུས།
- viryā
Direct cognition
- mngon sum gyi tshad ma
- མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ཚད་མ།
- pratyakṣapramāṇa
Direct their attention
- yid la byed
- ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད།
- manasikāra
Discerning
- rab tu rnam par ’byed pa
- རབ་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ།
- pravicaya
Discerning
- nges par rtog pa
- nges par rtogs pa
- ངེས་པར་རྟོག་པ།
- ངེས་པར་རྟོགས་པ།
- nirūpaṇā
Discipline
- tshul khrims
- ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
- śīla
Discourses teaching Dharma
- chos gdags pa rnam par gzhag pa
- ཆོས་གདགས་པ་རྣམ་པར་གཞག་པ།
- dharmaprajñaptivyavasthā(pa)na
Discriminating
- bye brag ’byed pa
- བྱེ་བྲག་འབྱེད་པ།
- nitīraṇa
Discrimination of dharmas
- chos rab tu rnam par ’byed pa
- ཆོས་རབ་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ།
- dharmapravicaya
Distinct
- tha dad pa
- ཐ་དད་པ།
- bheda
Distinctive
- bye brag
- བྱེ་བྲག
- viśeṣa
Distinctive characteristic
- bye brag gi mtshan nyid
- བྱེ་བྲག་གི་མཚན་ཉིད།
- viṣeśalakṣaṇa
Distinctly perceive
- rab tu shes
- རབ་ཏུ་ཤེས།
- prajānāti
Distinguishing
- bye brag ’byed pa
- བྱེ་བྲག་འབྱེད་པ།
- nitīraṇa
Diversity of things
- ji snyed yod pa nyid
- ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད།
- yāvadbhāvikatā
Domain of truth
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
Domains of mastery
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- abhibhvāyatana
Domains of totality
- zad par gyi skye mched
- ཟད་པར་གྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- kṛtsnāyatana
Dvandva
- —
- —
- dvandva
Effortless
- lhun gyis grub pa
- ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་པ།
- anābhoga
Elaboration of conventional expressions
- tha snyad ’dogs pa’i spros pa
- ཐ་སྙད་འདོགས་པའི་སྤྲོས་པ།
- vyavahāraprapañca
Eloquence
- spobs pa
- སྤོབས་པ།
- pratibhāna
Emanation
- sprul pa
- སྤྲུལ་པ།
- nirmāṇa
Emanation body
- sprul sku
- སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།
- nirmāṇakāya
Emancipation
- nges par ’byung ba
- ངེས་པར་འབྱུང་བ།
- niḥsaraṇa
- niryāṇa
Emptiness
- stong pa nyid
- སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- śūnyatā
Emptiness devoid of rejection
- dor ba med pa stong pa nyid
- དོར་བ་མེད་པ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- anavakāraśūnyatā
Emptiness of the limitless
- mtha’ las stong pa nyid
- མཐའ་ལས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- atyantaśūnyatā
Emptiness of the substanceless
- dngos po stong pa nyid
- དངོས་པོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- a(sva)bhāvaśūnyatā
Equanimity
- btang snyoms
- བཏང་སྙོམས།
- upekṣā
Erroneous conception
- mngon par zhen pa
- མངོན་པར་ཞེན་པ།
- abhiniveśa
Essence
- ngo bo nyid
- ངོ་བོ་ཉིད།
- svabhāva
Essencelessness
- ngo bo nyid med pa nyid
- ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ཉིད།
- niḥsvabhāvatā
Essencelessness regarding arising
- skye ba ngo bo nyid med pa nyid
- སྐྱེ་བ་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ཉིད།
- utpattiniḥsvabhāvatā
Essencelessness regarding defining characteristics
- mtshan nyid ngo bo nyid med pa nyid
- མཚན་ཉིད་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ཉིད།
- lakṣaṇaniḥsvabhāvatā
Essencelessness regarding the ultimate
- don dam pa ngo bo nyid med pa nyid
- དོན་དམ་པ་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ཉིད།
- paramārthaniḥsvabhāvatā
Essential characteristic
- ngo bo nyid kyi mtshan nyid
- ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།
- svabhāvalakṣaṇa
Established
- rnam par bzhag pa
- རྣམ་པར་བཞག་པ།
- vyavasthā
Examine
- brtag
- བརྟག
- —
Examine
- rnam par dpyad
- རྣམ་པར་དཔྱད།
- vicārita
- vicāraṇa
Examine
- ’jal ba
- འཇལ་བ།
- —
Examining
- yongs su dpyod pa
- ཡོངས་སུ་དཔྱོད་པ།
- parimīmāṃsā
- paricāra
Excellence of their peaceful conduct
- bzod pa dang des pa chen po dang ldan pa
- བཟོད་པ་དང་དེས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ལྡན་པ།
- mahākṣāntisauratyasamanvāgataḥ
Excellent Intelligence
- legs pa’i blo gros
- ལེགས་པའི་བློ་གྲོས།
- sādhumatī
Excited
- bzlums
- བཟླུམས།
- uddhata
Expedient
- rnam grangs
- རྣམ་གྲངས།
- paryāya
Express themselves through conventions
- tha snyad ’dogs
- ཐ་སྙད་འདོགས།
- vyavaharanti
Extent
- mthar thug pa
- མཐར་ཐུག་པ།
- paryanta
Fabrication
- yongs su rtog pa
- ཡོངས་སུ་རྟོག་པ།
- parikalpa
Factors of conditioned existence
- srid pa’i yan lag
- སྲིད་པའི་ཡན་ལག
- bhavāṅga
Faculties
- dbang po
- དབང་པོ།
- indriya
Faith
- dad pa
- དད་པ།
- śraddhā
Falsity
- skyon chags pa
- སྐྱོན་ཆགས་པ།
- duṣṭatā
Far Reaching
- ring du song ba
- རིང་དུ་སོང་བ།
- dūraṅgamā
Faultless state of truth
- yang dag pa nyid skyon med pa
- ཡང་དག་པ་ཉིད་སྐྱོན་མེད་པ།
- samyaktvanyāma
Five faculties
- dbang po lnga
- དབང་པོ་ལྔ།
- pañcendriyāṇi
Five forces
- stobs lnga
- སྟོབས་ལྔ།
- pañcabalāni
Five great fears
- ’jig pa chen po lnga
- འཇིག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ།
- pañcamahābhaya
Five sciences
- rigs pa’i gnas lnga po
- རིགས་པའི་གནས་ལྔ་པོ།
- pañcavidyā
Flexibility
- shin tu sbyangs pa
- ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱངས་པ།
- praśrabdhi
Focus their minds within
- sems nang du ’jog
- སེམས་ནང་དུ་འཇོག
- cittasthāpana
Foolish being
- byis pa
- བྱིས་པ།
- bāla
Forces
- stobs
- སྟོབས།
- bala
Formula
- gzungs
- གཟུངས།
- dhāraṇī
Foundations of training
- bslab pa’i gzhi
- བསླབ་པའི་གཞི།
- śikṣāpada
Four correct self-restraints
- yang dag par spong ba bzhi
- ཡང་དག་པར་སྤོང་བ་བཞི།
- catvāri prahāṇāni
Four kinds of assurance
- mi ’jigs pa bzhi
- མི་འཇིགས་པ་བཞི།
- catvāri vaiśāradyāni
Four kinds of sustenance
- zas bzhi
- ཟས་བཞི།
- catvārāhārāḥ
Four methods of conversion
- bsdu ba’i dngos po bzhi’i ming
- བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་བཞིའི་མིང་།
- catvāri saṃgrahavastūni
Four noble truths
- ’phags pa’i bden pa bzhi
- འཕགས་པའི་བདེན་པ་བཞི།
- catvāri āryasatyāni
Four seals of Dharma
- phyag rgya bzhi
- ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི།
- caturmudrā
Free from covetousness
- zang zing med pa
- ཟང་ཟིང་མེད་པ།
- nirāmiṣa
Free of any wrongdoing
- kha na ma tho ba med pa
- ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་མེད་པ།
- anavadya
Gambhīrārthasaṃdhinirmocana
- don zab dgongs pa nges par ’grel
- དོན་ཟབ་དགོངས་པ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ།
- Gambhīrārthasaṃdhinirmocana
Gandharva
- dri za
- དྲི་ཟ།
- gandharva
Garuḍa
- —
- —
- garuḍa
Gates of liberation
- rnam par thar pa’i sgo
- རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པའི་སྒོ།
- vimokṣamukha
Gāthā
- tshigs su bcad pa
- ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ།
- gāthā
Generosity
- sbyin pa
- སྦྱིན་པ།
- —
Gnosis
- ye shes
- ཡེ་ཤེས།
- jñāna
Gnosis and vision
- shes pa dang mthong ba
- ཤེས་པ་དང་མཐོང་བ།
- jñānadarśana
Gone forth
- nges par ’byung ba
- ངེས་པར་འབྱུང་བ།
- niryātaka
- parivrājaka
Great emptiness
- chen po stong pa nyid
- ཆེན་པོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད།
- mahāśūnyatā
Guṇākara
- yon tan ’byung gnas
- ཡོན་ཏན་འབྱུང་གནས།
- Guṇākara
Had realized the sameness [of all phenomena], the state of a buddha in which there is neither a center nor a periphery
- mtha’ dang dbus med pa’i sangs rgyas kyi sa mnyam pa nyid bu thugs su chud pa
- མཐའ་དང་དབུས་མེད་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་བུ་ཐུགས་སུ་ཆུད་པ།
- anantamadhyabuddhabhūmisamatādhigataḥ
Hard to Conquer
- shin tu sbyang dka’
- ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་དཀའ།
- sudurjayā