Glossary
Types of attestation for names and terms of the corresponding source language
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Atiśa
Wylie: a ti sha
Tibetan: ཨ་ཏི་ཤ།
Sanskrit: atiśa
Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (982–1054 ᴄᴇ), often referred to in Tibetan as jo bo, “(The) Lord,” was a renowned figure in the history of Tibetan Buddhism famous for coming to Tibet and revitalizing Buddhism there during the early eleventh century.
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Avalokiteśvara
Wylie: spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug
Tibetan: སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག
Sanskrit: avalokiteśvara
A bodhisattva who first appears in the Sukhāvatīvyūha sūtra (Toh 115) and then in a number of other Mahāyāna sūtras such as the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (Toh 113). Avalokiteśvara develops into a great bodhisattva who embodies compassion with multiple forms in Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhism.
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generating the altruistic mind set on attaining awakening
Wylie: byang chub kyi sems bskyed
Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད།
Sanskrit: bodhicittotpāda
The altruistic resolve to achieve complete and perfect buddhahood for the sake of oneself and all sentient beings.
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Gewai Lodrö
Wylie: dge ba’i blo gros
Tibetan: དགེ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས།
Ma Gewai Lodrö (ma dge ba’i blo gros), a Tibetan lotsāwa, was an important disciple of Rinchen Zangpo (rin chen bzang po, 958–1055) who translated several texts with Atiśa and worked with the Kaśmīri master Subhūtiśribhadra to translate a number of pramāṇa texts.
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opening formula
Wylie: gleng gzhi
Tibetan: གླེང་གཞི།
Sanskrit: nidāna
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Subhūtiśrī
Sanskrit: subhūtiśrī
Subhūtiśrī(śānti) was a paṇḍita from Kaśmīr invited to Western Tibet during the reign of the king Lha Dé (Lha lde) who translated a number of Prajñāpāramitā texts, sūtras, and works of pramāṇa.
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Tholing
Wylie: tho ling
Tibetan: ཐོ་ལིང་།
The important West Tibetan monastery founded in 996 ᴄᴇ by King Yeshé Ö (ye shes ’od) and the translator Rinchen Zangpo (rin chen bzang po).