TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS-Translation Terms

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TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS-Translation Terms

This page contains common translations for major Sanskrit and Chinese terms used in the book project TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS.

All entries should be preceded with an asterisk.


Contents

A-G

  • Abhidharma-kośa: Storehouse of Higher Doctrine
  • ādāna-vijñāna: appropriating consciousness
  • ālambana: object
  • Ālambana-parikṣā: Investigation of the Object
  • ālambana-pratyaya: object of engagement
  • ālaya-vijñana: basis consciousness
  • anumāna: inference
  • Avataṃsaka Sūtra: Flower Ornament Discourse
  • Bodhisattva-bhūmi: Bodhisattva Levels
  • caitta: mental factors
  • citta: mind
  • Faxiang: Dharma Characteristics
  • Ghana-vyūha-sūtra: Array of Adornments Discourse

H-M

  • indriya: sense power
  • Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra: Descent into Lanka Discourse
  • Madhyamaka: Middle Way School
  • Madhyaānta-vibhāga-bhāṣya: Commentary on the Differentiation of the Middle and Extremes
  • mano-vijñāna: mental consciousness

N-R

  • pañca-sarvatraga: five omnipresent mental factors
  • paratantra: other-dependent nature
  • parikalpita: imagined nature
  • pariniṣpanna: thoroughly real nature
  • Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra: Perfection of Wisdom Discourse
  • pratyakṣaL direct cognition
  • Qixin lun: Awakening of Faith
  • rũpa: form

S-Z

  • samādhi: meditative concentration
  • śamatha: calming
  • Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra: Discourse Explaining the Thought
  • saṃjñā: discriminations
  • saṃskāra: compositional factors
  • skandha: aggregates
  • sũtra: discourse
  • tathāgata-garbha: womb of thus gone ones (we might substitute "buddha nature" after the first occurrence)
  • Triṃśikā: Thirty Verses
  • vedanā: feelings
  • vicāra: analytical thought
  • vijñāna: consciousness
  • vijñapti: cognition
  • vijñapti-mātra: cognition only
  • Vimśatikā: Twenty Verses
  • vipaśyanā: analysis
  • vitarka: conceptual thought
  • Weshi: Cognition Only
  • Yogācāra: Yogic Practice School
  • Yogācāra-bhūmi-śāstra: Treatise on the Levels of Yogic Practice
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