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'''Ten meanings of dharma''' (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་བཅུ་, [[Wyl.]] ''chos kyi don bcu'') — Kyabjé [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] gives ten meanings for the term [[dharma]], quoting from [[Vasubandhu]]’s '' | '''Ten meanings of dharma''' (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་བཅུ་, [[Wyl.]] ''chos kyi don bcu'')— Kyabjé [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] gives ten meanings for the term [[dharma]], quoting from [[Vasubandhu]]’s ''[[Well Explained Reasoning]]'':<br> | ||
# | #[[knowable thing]],<br> | ||
#the [[path]] (Wyl. ''lam''),<br> | #the [[path]] (Wyl. ''lam''),<br> | ||
#[[nirvana]] (Wyl. ''mya ngan las 'das pa''),<br> | #[[nirvana]] (Wyl. ''mya ngan las 'das pa''),<br> | ||
Latest revision as of 03:44, 22 November 2018
Ten meanings of dharma (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་བཅུ་, Wyl. chos kyi don bcu)— Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche gives ten meanings for the term dharma, quoting from Vasubandhu’s Well Explained Reasoning:
- knowable thing,
- the path (Wyl. lam),
- nirvana (Wyl. mya ngan las 'das pa),
- a mental object (Skt. manoviṣaya; Wyl. yid kyi yul),
- merit (Wyl. bsod nams),
- life (Skt. āyu; Wyl. tshe),
- teachings of the Buddha, or its scriptures (Skt. dharmapravacana; Wyl. gsung rab),
- what is subject to age or change, i.e. material objects (Wyl. 'byung 'gyur),
- rules (Wyl. nges pa) or religious vows, and
- spiritual traditions (Skt. dharmanīti; Wyl. chos lugs).
They all relate to the sense of ‘holding’, which is the meaning of dhṛ, the root of the word dharma.
The general usage in English for the typography of the term 'dharma' is to use an upper case when referring to Buddha's teachings, the path or the truth of cessation (cases 2, 3 & 7).