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.
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
- Baifa mingmen lun 百法明門論: Lucid Introduction to the One Hundred Dharmas
- Bashi guijusong八識規矩頌: Verses on the Structure of the Eight Consciousnesses
- Bodhisattva-bhūmi: Bodhisattva Levels
- caitta: mental factors
- chanding 禅定: stabilization of the mind
- citta: mind
- Faxiang: Dharma Characteristics
- Faxiangzong: Dharma Characteristics School
- Foxinglun 佛性論: Treatise on the Buddha Nature
- 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
- mingdi 冥諦: dark primordial truth
- mūla-jñāna genbenzhi 根本智: fundamental wisdom
N-R
- Nyāyamukha Yinming zhengli menlun 因明正理門論: Introduction to Logic
- Nyāyapraveśa śāstra Yinming ruzhengli lun 因明入正理論: Entry Into Logic
- pañca-sarvatraga: five omnipresent mental factors
- paratantra: other-dependent nature
- parikalpita: imagined nature
- pariniṣpanna: thoroughly real nature
- Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra: Perfection of Wisdom Discourse
- pratyakṣa: direct cognition
- pṛṣṭha-labdha-jñāna houdezhi后得智: post-awakening cognitions
- 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
- Sanwuxinglun三無性論 Treatise on the Three Non-natures
- 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
- xingzong: Dharma Nature School
- Yogācāra: Yogic Practice School
- Yogācāra-bhūmi-śāstra: Treatise on the Levels of Yogic Practice