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Key Terms



Category:Key Terms
This category includes definitions of key Buddhist terminology.

Subcategories

This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.

A
Abhidharma
B
Bardos
C
Compassion
D
Destructive Emotions
Dharma
F
Four Noble Truths
K
Karma
P
Paths and Stages
S
Schools and Lineages
T
Three Jewels

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A


* Abhidharma
* Absolute
* Absolute bodhichitta
* Absolute truth
* Action
* Adventitious stains
* Alaya
* All-accomplishing wisdom
* All-ground consciousness
* Analytical meditation
* Anger
* Antidotes
* Anuyoga
* Arhat
* Arya
* Atiyoga
* Attention
* Awareness


B


* Bardo
* Basic space
* Basic vehicle
* Bhumi
* Blessing
* Bodhi tree
* Bodhichitta
* Bodhichitta in action
* Bodhichitta in aspiration
* Bodhisattva
* Buddha
* Buddha field
* Buddha nature
* Buddhahood
* Buddhism
* Bön


C


* Cessation
* Charya Tantra
* Chittamatra
* Clear light
* Cognitive obscurations
* Compassion
* Compassionate energy
* Concentration
* Confession
* Confident faith
* Conscientiousness
* Contact
* Contentment
* Craving



D


* Dedication
* Defiled mental consciousness
* Dependent origination
* Desire
* Desire realm
* Destructive emotions
* Dharma
* Dharma of realization
* Dharma of transmission
* Dharmadhatu
* Dharmakaya
* Diligence
* Discipline
* Doubt
* Dzogchen


E


* Eager faith
* Eight consciousnesses
* Elements
* Emotional obscurations
* Empowerment
* Emptiness
* Enlightened
* Enlightened activity
* Enlightened qualities
* Enlightenment
* Equanimity
* Essence
* Eternalism


F


* Faith
* Field of merit
* Five elements
* Five paths
* Five poisons
* Five skandhas
* Form
* Form realm
* Formations
* Formless realm
* Four gateways to liberation
* Four immeasurables
* Four maras
* Four Noble Truths
* Four obscurations
* Four reliances
* Four schools
* Four seals
* Four tenet systems
* Four thoughts
* Fully ordained monk



G


* Gelug
* Generosity
* Ground
* Ground luminosity
* Guru Yoga


H


* Habitual obscurations
* Habitual tendencies


I


* Ignorance
* Impermanence
* Indivisibility of samsara and nirvana
* Indivisible moment of consciousness
* Inner tantras
* Intelligence
* Irreversible faith


J


* Jambudvipa
* Joy


K


* Kadampa
* Kagyü
* Kalpa
* Kama
* Kangyur
* Karma
* Karmic obscurations
* Kaya
* Knowledge of all aspects
* Kriya Tantra
* Kyerim


L


* Lama
* Lamdré
* Lamrim
* Laziness
* Liberation
* Lojong
* Longchen Nyingtik
* Loving kindness


M


* Madhyamaka
* Madhyamika
* Mahamudra
* Mahayana
* Mahayoga
* Mandala
* Mantra
* Mantrayana
* Meditation
* Meditative concentration
* Meditative equipoise
* Merit
* Middle Way
* Mind
* Mindfulness
* Minor mark
* Mirror-like wisdom
* Misdeeds
* Motivation
* Mudra


N


* Nature
* Nature of mind
* Negative actions
* Ngakpa
* Ngöndro
* Nihilism
* Nine yanas
* Nirmanakaya
* Nirvana
* Non-returner
* Nyingma
* Nyingma Kama


O


* Obscurations
* Omniscience
* Once-returner
* Oral transmission
* Ordinary mind
* Origin


=P==
* Pandita
* Paramita
* Parinirvana
* Path
* Path of accumulation
* Path of joining
* Path of meditation
* Path of no-more-learning
* Path of seeing
* Patience
* Perception
* Pliancy
* Prajnaparamita
* Pramana
* Pratimoksha vows
* Pratyekabuddha
* Pride
* Primary elements
* Primordial purity
* Primordial wisdom
* Psycho-physical system
* Pure perception


R


* Relative bodhichitta
* Relative truth
* Renunciation
* Retreat
* Rigpa
* Root teacher
* Rupakaya


"The dividing line between samsara and nirvana is Bodhichitta." -- Garchen Rinpoche in Vajrakilaya

S


* Sadhana
* Sakya
* Samadhi
* Samaya
* Sambhogakaya
* Samsara
* Sangha
* Sarma
* Sautrantika
* Secret mantra
* Self
* Self-grasping
* Selflessness
* Selflessness of phenomena
* Selflessness of the individual
* Sensation
* Settling meditation
* Seven lineages of transmission
* Shamatha
* Shastra
* Shedra
* Shravaka
* Siddhi
* Sign
* Six classes of beings
* Six paramitas
* Skillful means
* Spiritual friend
* Spontaneous presence
* Stream-enterer
* Stupa
* Suffering
* Sugata
* Sutra
* Sutrayana
* Svabhavikakaya


T


* Tainted
* Taints
* Taking Refuge
* Tantra
* Tantrayana
* Ten bhumis
* Ten positive actions
* Ten unwholesome actions
* Tengyur
* Terma
* Tertön
* Three doors
* Three gateways to liberation
* Three higher trainings
* Three Jewels
* Three kayas
* Three kinds of faith
* Three kinds of generosity
* Three levels of spiritual capacity
* Three lineages of transmission
* Three noble principles
* Three pitakas
* Three poisons
* Three realms
* Three Roots
* Three Turnings
* Three wisdom tools
* Tibetan Buddhism
* Tulku
* Twelve links of dependent origination
* Two accumulations
* Two obscurations
* Two truths
* Two-fold benefit


U


* Union of skillful means and wisdom


V


* Vaibhashika
* Vajra
* Vajra Seat
* Vajrayana
* Vehicle
* Vidyadhara
* View
* View of the transitory collection
* View, Meditation and Action
* Vigilance
* Vinaya
* Vipashyana
* Virtue
* Vitarka mudra
* Vivid faith


W


* Web of Magical Illusion
* Wheel of Life
* Wisdom
* Wisdom dharmakaya
* Wisdom of dharmadhatu
* Wisdom of discernment
* Wisdom of equality
* Word of the Buddha
* World
* Wrong view


Y


* Yidam
* Yoga Tantra
* Yogi