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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་

Bodhisattva

A bodhisattva is a buddha-to-be, or a “being intent on actualizing enlightenment” for the benefit of all sentient beings without...
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Last updated on July 2, 2025
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Bodhisattvas, Deities
ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva is one of the most significant and multifaceted bodhisattvas in the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition. His name, meaning "Universal...
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Last updated on June 24, 2025
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Terminology
འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད་

Eight Great Fears 

Buddhist texts speak of "eight great fears" that sentient beings often experience. These fears have outer, inner, and ultimate meanings...
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Last updated on June 5, 2025
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Perception and Inference, Particulars and Universals

Explore how Buddhist logic distinguishes direct perception from conceptual inference, clarifying how we experience unique phenomena and construct meaning.
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Last updated on June 2, 2025
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Terminology
གཏན་ཚིགས

Buddhist Science of Logic

The Buddhist science of logic (pramāṇa) explores how correct knowledge dispels ignorance, leading to happiness and liberation. It emphasizes perception...
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Last updated on June 2, 2025
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བག་ཡོད་པ་

Carefulness 

Carefulness, conscientiousness or heedfulness is one of eleven virtuous mental states (gewé semjung chuchik) according to Asanga’s Abhidharmasamuccaya, The Compendium...
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Last updated on June 19, 2025
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Great Masters, Terminology
གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག

Sixteen Arhats

"Sixteen Arhats" are a group of early disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha, chosen by him to preserve and protect the Dharma...
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Last updated on May 30, 2025
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Great Masters
རྒོད་ཚང་པ་མགོན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ།

Götsangpa Gonpo Dorje

Götsangpa Gonpo Dorje was a yogi and founder of the Upper Drukpa lineage. Known for his retreats and teachings, he...
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Last updated on May 8, 2025
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བསླབ་པ་གསུམ།

Three Trainings

The Three Trainings are the practices of discipline, meditation, and wisdom.
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Last updated on April 18, 2025
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ཉོན་མོངས།

Negative Emotions

According to the Abhidharma texts, there are eighty-four thousand negative mental qualities.
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Last updated on April 17, 2025
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Auspicious Days

Vesak Day

On Vesak Day, Buddhists commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and the passing into nirvana of the Buddha.
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Last updated on April 9, 2025
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Terminology
བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་བཞི།

Four Means of Magnetizing

According to the teachings of the Great Vehicle as well as the Vajrayana, in order to attract and hold disciples,...
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Last updated on April 7, 2025
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Ritual
ཕྲེང་བ།

Mala

Buddhist malas are strings of beads. They are used by Buddhist practitioners to count mantra recitations and prayers.
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Last updated on November 13, 2024
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Terminology
དྲི་མ་དྲུག།

Six Stains of the Listener

The Six Stains of the Listener are part of a list of 14 types of mistaken conduct described by Buddhist...
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Last updated on February 19, 2024
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སྣོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱོན་གསུམ།

Three Defects of the Vessel

In traditional Buddhist teachings, the three defects of the vessel are explained as something students should avoid when receiving dharma...
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Last updated on February 19, 2024
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Terminology
མི་འཛིན་པ་ལྔ།

Five Wrong Ways of Remembering

The Five Wrong Ways of Remembering is a list of five common mistakes a student can make when listening to...
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Last updated on February 19, 2024
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Ritual, Symbols & Iconography
ཕྱག་རྒྱ།

Mudra

Learn the famous offering mudras used in Tibetan Buddhist ritual practices.
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Last updated on February 3, 2024
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Practices, Ritual
བསང་མཆོད།

Scent Offerings in Vajrayana Buddhism

This article discusses the imporance of scent offerings such as the Sangchö (cleansing smoke offering) to Vajrayana Buddhism.
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Last updated on April 3, 2025
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Great Masters
འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

Jamgön Mipham (Mipam) Gyatso

Mipham Rinpoche, or Jamgön Mipham Gyatso, was an exceptional scholar-practitioner and one of the foremost Tibetan commentators of the early...
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Last updated on January 16, 2024
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Terminology

Tibetan Translation History and Methodology

Translating the Buddhadharma from Indic languages into Sanskrit was a monumental effort. Under the sponsorship of Tibetan emperors, bilingual lexicons...
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Last updated on April 3, 2025
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Terminology
དྲན་པ།

Mindfulness 

Mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition is a technical term. It emphasizes remembering or holding something in mind and is considered...
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Last updated on January 15, 2024
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Terminology
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདད་འདད།

Bhagavān

Bhagavān is one of the many epithets of the Buddha.
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Last updated on January 5, 2024
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Symbols & Iconography
རླུང་རྟ།

Prayer Flags

Tibetan prayer flags have now become very popular throughout the world. What is their history and significance?
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Last updated on January 2, 2024
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Ritual
འཆམ།

Ritual Dance: Tibetan Buddhist Cham

Cham is a performance of masked and costumed dance performed within the context of Vajrayana ritual ceremonies in the Himalayan...
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Last updated on December 29, 2023
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Terminology
བྱམས་པ།

Loving Kindness

Loving kindness or love in Buddhist terminology refers specifically to the wish that all sentient beings have happiness and the...
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Last updated on December 27, 2023
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Ritual, Symbols & Iconography
གཏོར་མ།

Torma

Torma are sculptures made traditionally of edible dough. In Vajrayana Buddhism they can be used in a variety of contexts,...
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Last updated on January 3, 2024
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Terminology
དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ།

Arhat

“Foe Destroyer,” the English translation of the Tibetan dgra bcom pa (pronounced dra chom pa) may sound like an old-fashioned or unusual term....
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Last updated on December 15, 2023
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དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།

Three Jewels

The Three Jewels of the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha are the rare and supreme objects of refuge for...
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Last updated on December 15, 2023
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ཞིང་ཁམས།

Buddhafields

Buddhafields as described in Mahayana activity are displays of wisdom spontaneously created by buddhas. Texts offer detailed descriptions of the...
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Last updated on September 15, 2023
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Terminology
བར་དོ།

Bardo

Bardo is a Tibetan term that translates as “the period between two events”. The Tibetan syllable “bar” means “between” or...
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Last updated on January 10, 2024
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