| Definition |
Etymology |
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| bardo, lit. "intermediate state" or "in-between state", According to Tibetan tradition, the state of existence intermediate between two lives |
- Tib: བར་མ་དོའི་སྲིད་པ་ bar ma do'i srid pa
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- Sanskrit: antarābhava
- Mn: зуурд, zuurd
- 中有,中陰身
- Cn: zhongyǒu
- Jp: chūu
- Ko: 중유 jungyu or 바르도 bareudo
- Vi: trung hữu, trung ấm thân, thân trung-ấm
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| bhavacakra/bhavacakka A circular symbolic representation of samsara, also known as Wheel of becoming |
- Pāli: bhavacakka
- Sanskrit: bhava-cakra
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- Bur: ဘဝစက် bawa set
- Mon: ဘဝစက်
- Shan: ၽဝႃႉၸၢၵ်ႈ
- Tib: སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལ
- Mn: Орчлонгийн хүрдэн, Orchlongiin khurden
- 有輪
- Cn: yǒulún
- Jp: ariwa
- Ko: 유륜, yuryun
- Vi: hữu luân
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| bhante The polite particle used to refer to Buddhist monks in the Theravada tradition. Bhante literally means "Venerable Sir." |
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| bhava Becoming, being, existing; the 10th link of Pratitya-samutpada |
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- Bur: ဘဝ bawa
- Mon: ဘဝ
- Shan: ၽဝႃႉ
- Thai: ภาวะ pa-wah
- 有(十二因緣)
- Cn: yǒu
- Jp: u
- Ko: 유, yu
- Vi: hữu (thập nhị nhân duyên)
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| bhikkhu/bhikshu, lit. "beggar", A Buddhist monk |
- Pāli: bhikkhu
- Sanskrit: bhikṣu
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- Bur: ဘိက္ခု bheikkhu
- Shan: ၽိၵ်ႈၶူႇ
- Tib: དགེ་སློང་ dge slong
- Mn: гэлэн, gelen
- Thai: ภิกขุ bhikku
- 比丘
- Cn: bǐ qiū
- Jp: biku
- Ko: 비구, bigu or 스님 seunim, also 중, jung (pejorative)
- Vi: tỉ-khâu, tỉ-khưu or tì-kheo, tăng
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| bhikkhuni/bhikshuni A Buddhist nun |
- from bhikkhu
- Pāli: bhikkhuni
- Sanskrit: bhikṣuni
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- Bur: ဘိက္ခုနီ bheikkhuni
- Shan: ၽိၵ်ႈၶူႇၼီႇ
- Tib: དགེ་སློང་མ་ sde slong ma
- Mn: гэлэнмаа, gelenmaa
- Thai: ภิกษุณี bhiksuni
- 比丘尼
- Cn: bǐqiūní"
- Jp: bikuni
- Ko: 비구니, biguni, 여승 (女僧), yeoseung
- Vi: tỉ-khâu-ni, tỉ-khưu-ni or tì-kheo-ni, ni
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| bija, lit. "seed", A metaphor for the origin or cause of things, used in the teachings of the Yogacara school |
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- Bur: ဗီဇ biza
- 種子
- Cn: zhŏngzi
- Jp: shūji
- Ko: 종자, jongja
- Vi: chủng tử, hạt giống, hột giống
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| bodhi Awakening or Enlightenment |
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- Bur: ဗောဓိ bawdhi
- Shan: ပေႃးထီႉ
- Thai: โพธิ์ poe
- Tib: བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ byang chub
- Mn: бодь, bodi
- 菩提
- Cn: pútí
- Jp: bodai
- Ko: 보리, bori
- Vi: bồ-đề, giác, giác ngộ
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| Bodhi tree The Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa) tree under which Gautama reached Enlightenment |
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- Bur: ဗောဓိညောင် bawdhi nyaung
- Shan: ၺွင်ႇပေႃးထီႉ
- 菩提樹
- Cn: Pútíshù
- Jp: Bodaiju
- Ko: 보리수, Borisu
- Vi: Bồ-đề thụ, Bồ-đề thọ, cây Bồ-đề
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| bodhicitta The motivation of a bodhisattva |
- Pāli, Sanskrit: bodhicitta
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- Bur: ဗောဓိစိတ္တ bawdhi seitta
- Tib: བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་, phyang chub kyi sems
- Mn: бодь сэтгэл, bodi setgel
- 菩提心
- Cn: pútíxīn
- Jp: bodaishin
- Ko: 보리심, borisim
- Vi: bồ-đề tâm
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| bodhisattva One with the intention to become a Buddha in order to liberate all other sentient beings from suffering |
- Pāli: bodhisatta
- Sanskrit: bodhisattva
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- Bur: ဗောဓိသတ် bawdhi that
- Mon: တြုံ လၟောဝ် ကျာ်
- Thai: โพธิสัตว์ poe-ti-satt
- Tib: བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ, phyang chub kyi sems pa
- Mn: бодьсад(ва), bodisad(va)
- 菩薩
- Cn: púsà
- Jp: bosatsu
- Ko: 보살, bosal
- Vi: bồ-tát
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| Boghda Holy, living Buddha, living Boddhisattva. The title of Jebtsundamba Khutuktu; also title used with the names of highest Buddhist masters, e.g. boghda Tsongkhapa, Panchen boghda |
- Shan: ၽၵ်ႈၵဝႃႇ
- Mn: богд, bogd
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| Buddha A Buddha; also, the Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama. |
- from √budh: to awaken
- Pāli, Sanskrit: buddha
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- Bur: ဗုဒ္ဓ bodha
- Shan: ပုၵ်ႉထႃႉ
- Tib: སངས་རྒྱས sans rgjay
- Mn: бурхан, burhan
- 佛, 仏, 仏陀
- Cn: fó
- Jp: butsu or hotoke or budda
- Ko: 불, Bul or 부처, Bucheo
- Vi: Phật or Bụt
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| buddha nature The uncreated and deathless Buddhic element or principle concealed within all sentient beings to achieve Awakening; the innate (latent) Buddha essence (esp. in the Tathagatagarbha sutras, Tendai/Tiantai, Nichiren thought) |
- Sanskrit: buddha-dhatu, buddha-svabhāva, "tathagata-dhatu", or tathagatagarbha.
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- 佛性, 仏性
- Cn: fóxìng
- Jp: busshō
- Ko: 불성, bulseong
- Vi: Phật tính, Phật tánh, Cái tánh sáng-suốt giác-ngộ hoàn-toàn
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| Buddhism |
- from √budh: to awaken
- Pāli, Sanskrit:
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- Bur: ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ boddha batha
- Shan: ပုၵ်ႉထႃႉၽႃႇသႃႇ
- Mon: ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ
- Tib: ནང་བསྟན།
- Mn: Бурханы Шашин, Burhanii Shashin
- 佛教, 仏教
- Cn: Fójiào
- Jp: bukkyō
- Ko: 불교, bulgyo
- Vi: Phật-giáo
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