Glossary
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g.1
acceptance of the fact that phenomena do not arise
Wylie: mi skye ba’i chos la bzod pa thob pa
Tibetan: མི་སྐྱེ་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་བཟོད་པ་ཐོབ་པ།
Sanskrit: anutpattikadharmakṣāntilabha
The name of a meditative state associated with the path of seeing after which a bodhisattva’s progress on the path is irreversible.
g.2
Maheśvara
Wylie: dbang phyug chen po
Tibetan: དབང་ཕྱུག་ཆེན་པོ།
Sanskrit: maheśvara
A name for the Hindu deity Śiva.
g.3
Śuddhāvāsa
Wylie: gnas gtsang ma’i ri
Tibetan: གནས་གཙང་མའི་རི།
Sanskrit: śuddhāvāsa
The “Pure Abode” heaven; a name for the five highest levels of existence within the form realm.
g.4
Suvrata
Wylie: dka’ thub bzang po
Tibetan: དཀའ་ཐུབ་བཟང་པོ།
Sanskrit: suvrata, munisuvrata
The name of the twentieth Jain arhat of the present descending age (avasarpiṇī).