Glossary

Abhidharma

Tibetan: ཆོས་མངོན་པ།, Wylie: chos mngon pa, Sanskrit: Abhidharma. One of the three piṭakas (baskets) སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ།. The foundation of Buddhist psychology and logic. It describes the universe, the

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Absolute truth

Tibetan: དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་, Wylie: don dam bden pa, Sanskrit: paramārtha satya. Actual truth perceived through wisdom, without mental fabrications. Its characteristic is to be “beyond mind, unthinkable, inexpressible”

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Acharya

Tibetan: སློབ་དཔོན་, Wylie: slob dpon, Sanskrit: ācārya. Teacher. Equivalent of spiritual master or lama.

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Achi Chokyi Drolma ཨ་ཕྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒྲོལ་མ།

Achi Chokyi Drolma

Tibetan: ཨ་ཕྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒྲོལ་མ་, Wylie: a phyi chos kyi sgrol ma. The Dharma Protector (Dharmapāla) of the Drikung Kagyu school. Achi Chokyi Drolma is the grandmother of Jigten

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