This glossary contains an alphabetical list of Buddhist terms that you may find on this website. Many of the terms now include phoneticized Sanskrit (Skt) as well as two forms of Tibetan—the phonetic version (Tib), which is a guide to pronunciation, and transliteration using the Wylie method (Wyl). Search for the term you want by entering it in the search box or browse through the listing by clicking on the letters below. Please see our Content Disclaimer regarding English terms in LYWA publications that may be outdated and should be considered in context.
They are: conventional bodhicitta, wishing to attain enlightenment in order to free all sentient beings from suffering, and ultimate bodhicitta, the realization of emptiness within a bodhisattva's mental continuum. See also bodhicitta.
The truth body or dharmakaya, the result of the wisdom side of the practice and the form body or rupakaya, the result of the method side of the practice.
Eternalism, seeing things as having an intrinsic reality, and nihilism, seeing things as having no reality at all.
The classification of a buddha's body into two: dharmakaya (truth body) and rupakaya (form body). See also three kayas and four kayas.
Deluded mental states that block the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. They are: the grosser kind, called disturbing-thought obscurations or obscurations to liberation, and the subtle obscurations, the imprints left when those are purified, called obscurations to knowledge or obscurations to enlightenment.
