- abbot
- Abhayagiri
- Abhidharma
- absolutism (eternalism or permanence, śāśvatānta, sassata)
- absorption factors
- absorption of cessation (nirodha-samāpatti)
- abstract composites (viprayukta-saṃskāra)
- access
- access concentration (Pali: upacāra samādhi)
- acquired afflictions (parikalpita, Tibetan: kun btags)
- acquisition (prāpti, Tibetan: ‘thob pa)
- act of merit
- action prohibited by the Buddha
- actual clear light (of the fourth stage)
- actual dhyāna (Tibetan: bsam gtan gyi dngos gzhi)
- adhikarana-samatha
- affirming negative (paryudāsapratiṣedha, Tibetan: ma yin dgag)
- afflictions (kleśa)
- afflictive obscurations (kleśāvaraṇa, Tibetan: nyon mongs kyi sgrib pa)
- Āgamas
- aggregates (skandha, khandha)
- aging (sthityanyathatva, thitassa annathatta)
- anagārika
- analysis (vicāra, Tibetan: dpyod pa)
- analytical meditation (vicārabhāvanā, Tibetan: dpyad sgom)
- anger
- animal liberation
- appearing object (pratibhāsa-viṣaya, Tibetan: snang yul)
- apperception (svasaṃvedana, Tibetan: rang rig)
- apprehended object (engaged object, muṣṭibandhaviṣaya, Tibetan: ’ dzin stangs kyi yul)
- arhat (Pali: arahant, Tibetan: dgra bcom pa)
- arising/production (utpāda, uppāada, Tibetan: skye ba)
- ārya buddha
- ārya learner (Pali: ariya)
- aspiration
- ātman
- attachment
- autonomous syllogism (svatantra-prayoga, Tibetan: rang rgyud kyi sbyor ba)
- awakening activity (samudācāra, Tibetan: ’phrin las)
- awakening (samyaksaṃbodhi)
- bardo (antarābhava)
- base of latencies of ignorance
- basis of designation (basis of imputation, Tibetan: gdags gzhi)
- bhāṇakas
- bhavaṅga
- bhikshuni-upadhyayini
- bhikṣu and bhikṣuṇī (bhikshu and bhikshuni)
- bless
- bliss
- bodhicitta
- bodhisattva
- bodhisattva ground (bodhisattvabhūmi)
- body
- Bön
- brahmacarya
- breakthrough wisdom
- buddha
- buddha essence (Sanskrit: Tathāgatagarbha)
- buddha nature (Sanskrit: <i>buddhagotra</i>)
- buddha nature (buddha disposition, Tibetan: sangs rgyas kyi rigs)
- Buddhadharma
- capable preparation (not-unable, anāgamya, Tibetan: nyer bsdogs mi lcog med)
- causal meditative absorption
- causal or initial motivation (hetu-samutthāna)
- causally concordant behavioral result
- causally concordant experiential result
- causally concordant result
- cessation (nirodha)
- cessation of discrimination and feeling
- absorption of cessation (Pali: <i>nirodhasamāpatti</i>)
- character natureless (laksaṇa-niḥsvabhāvatā, Tibetan: mtshan nyid ngo bo nyid med pa)
- characteristics (lakṣaṇa, Tibetan: mtshan nyid)
- Cittamātra (Yogācāra)
- clear light (prabhāsvara)
- clear realization / clear realizer (breakthrough, abhisamaya, Tibetan: mngon rtogs)
- clinging
- clinging attachment
- coarse afflictions
- coarse engagement
- cognitive faculty/sensory faculty (indriya)
- cognitive obscurations ( jñeyāvaraṇa, Tibetan: shes bya’ i sgrib pa)
- collection of merit (puṇyasaṃbhāra)
- collection of wisdom ( jñānasaṃbhāra)
- collections (requisites, sambhāra, Tibetan: tshogs)
- common four truths
- compassion (karuṇā)
- compounded phenomena
- impermanent phenomena
- comprehended object (prameya, Tibetan: gzhal bya)
- conceived object (adhyavasāya-viṣaya, Tibetan: zhen yul)
- concentration (samādhi)
- conceptual appearance (artha-sāmānya, Tibetan: don spyi)
- conceptual consciousness (kalpanā, Tibetan: rtog pa’ i shes pa)
- conceptuality (kalpanā, Tibetan: rtog pa)
- conceptualizations (vikalpa viparyāsa, Tibetan: rnam rtog)
- conceptually acquired (intellectually acquired self-grasping, Sanskrit: parikalpita)
- concomitant (Tibetan: mtshungs ldan)
- conditionality (causal dependence)
- conditions
- confusion (moha, Tibetan: gti mug)
- consciousness (vijñāna, viññāṇa, Tibetan: rnam shes)
- consequence (prasaṅga, Tibetan: thal ’gyur)
- continuity of substance
- continuity of type
- conventional existence (saṃvṛtisat)
- conventional reliable cognizer (Tibetan: tha snyad pa’ i tshad ma)
- conventional truths (veiled truth, saṃvṛtisatya, sammuti-sacca, Tibetan: kun rdzob bden pa)
- cooperative conditions
- correct belief
- corrupted intelligence
- counterpart sign (Pali: paṭbhāga-nimitta)
- craving
- craving for existence
- craving for nonexistence
- craving for sensual objects
- cyclic existence (saṃsāra)
- ḍākinī
- Dalai Lama
- death (maraṇabhava)
- deathless
- defilement (mala, Tibetan: dri ma)
- definite karma
- definitive teachings (nītārtha, nītattha, Tibetan: nges don)
- deity (iṣṭadevatā, Tibetan: yi dam)
- deity yoga
- demeritorious karma
- dependent arising (pratītyasamutpāda)
- designation (designated object, prajñapti, paññatti, Tibetan: btags pa)
- desire realm (kāmadhātu)
- determination to be free
- renunciation
- deva
- dhāraṇī
- Dharma (Pali: Dhamma)
- Dharma protector
- Dharmaguptaka
- dharmakāya
- dhyāna (Pali: jhāna)
- different (nānātva, Tibetan: tha dad)
- different nature
- direct nonconceptual realization of emptiness
- direct perceiver (pratyakṣa, Tibetan: mgon sum)
- direct reliable cognizer (pratyakṣa-pramāṇa)
- discordant characteristics
- disenchantment (Pali: nibbidā)
- dispassion (fading away, Pali: virāga)
- distorted attention (distorted conceptions, ayoniśo manaskāra, Tibetan: tshul min yid byed)
- distorted conception (inappropriate attention, ayoniśo-manaskāra, Tibetan: tshul bzhin ma yin pa’ i yid la byed pa)
- doubt
- dry-insight arhats
- dualistic appearance (Tibetan: gnyis snang)
- duḥkha of change
- duḥkha of pain
- duḥkha (Pali: dukkha)
- dusktra (Pali: dukkata)
- Dzogchen
- eight liberations (vimokṣa, vimokkha, Tibetan: rnam thar)
- eight worldly concerns (aṣṭalokadharma)
- eighteen constituents (dhātu, Tibetan: khams)
- eighteen unique qualities of a buddha
- elaborations (proliferations, prapañca, papañca, Tibetan: spros pa)
- emanation body (nirmāṇakāya, Tibetan: sprul sku)
- emptiness (śūnyatā, Tibetan: stong pa nyid)
- engaged object (apprehended object, pravṛtti-viṣaya, Tibetan: ‘ jug yul)
- enjoyment body (saṃbhogakāya, Tibetan: longs sku)
- environmental result (adhipatiphala)
- equalizing self and others
- equanimity (Pali: upekkhā, Sanskrit: upekṣā)
- erroneous (viparyāsa, Tibetan: phyin ci log pa)
- essentialists (proponents of true existence, Tibetan: dngos por smra ba)
- establishments of mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna, satipaṭṭhāna, Tibetan: dran pa nyer bzhag)
- evident phenomena (abhimukhī)
- exalted knower ( jñāna, Tibetan: mkhyen pa)
- exchanging self and others
- existence by its own characteristics (svalakṣaṇa, Tibetan: rang gi mtshan nyid kyis grub pa)
- existent (sat)
- extreme of absolutism (eternalism, permanence, existence, śāśvatānta)
- extreme of nihilism (ucchedānta)
- far-reaching practices
- far-reaching attitudes
- paramitas
- feeling (vedanā)
- fetters (saṃyojana)
- five actions of immediate retribution (ānantaryakarma)
- five dhyānic factors
- five heinous crimes (ānantārya)
- five hindrances (āvaraṇa, Tibetan: sgrib pa lnga)
- five lay precepts
- five lower fetters
- focal object (viṣaya, Tibetan: dmigs pa)
- form body (rūpakāya)
- form realm (rūpadhātu)
- formless realm (ārūpyadhātu)
- fortitude
- fortitude of the nonarising of dharmas (anutpattika dharmakṣānti, Tibetan: mi skye ba’ i chos la bzod pa)
- fortitude of the nonarising of phenomena (anutpattika-dharma-kṣānti, Tibetan: mi skye ba’ i chos la bzod pa)
- foundation consciousness (ālayavijñāna, Tibetan: kun gzhi rnam shes)
- four buddha bodies
- four distorted conceptions (distorted attention, ayoniśa manaskāra, Tibetan: tshul min yid byed)
- four fearlessnesses
- four-fold assembly
- four māras
- four opponent powers
- four seals (caturmudrā)
- four truths of the āryas (four noble truths, catvāry āryasatyāni)
- four ways of gathering or assembling (saṃgrahavastu, saṅgahavatthu, Tibetan: bsdu ba’ i dngos po bzhi)
- free from conceptuality (kalpanā-apoḍha, Tibetan: rtog bral)
- full awakening (samyaksaṃbodhi)
- functional phenomena
- fundamental innate clear light mind (Tibetan: gnyug ma lhan cig skyes pa’ i ’od gsal gyi sems)
- Fundamental Vehicle
- gandharva (Pali: gandhabba)
- gāthās
- general characteristics (sāmānya-lakṣaṇa, sāmañña-lakkhaṇa, Tibetan: spyi’ i mtshan nyid)
- Geshe Lharampa
- glance meditation
- god (deva)
- grasping true existence (true-grasping, satyagrāha)
- gratification, danger, and escape
- great compassion
- great resolve
- ground (bhūmi)
- guru yoga
- gurudharma (Pali: gurudhamma)
- harmonies with awakening (bodhipākṣya-dharma, bodhipakkhiya-dhamma)
- having-ceased (naṣṭa)
- hearers (Pali: sāvaka, Sanskrit: śrāvaka)
- heartwarming love
- hell being (nāraka)
- highest yoga tantra (anuttarayogatantra)
- hungry ghost (preta)
- I-grasping (ahaṃkāra)
- ignorance (avidyā)
- illustration-isolate self (Tibetan: gang zag gzhi ldog)
- immediate motivation (tatkṣaṇa-samutthāna)
- imperceptible form (avijñapti-rūpa)
- impermanence (anitya, anicca)
- impermanent (anitya, anicca)
- imputedly existent (prajñaptisat, Tibetan: btags yod)
- inappropriate attention
- inattentive awareness (Tibetan: snang la ma nges)
- inference (anumāna, Tibetan: rjes su dpag pa)
- inferential realization
- inferential reliable cognizer (anumāna-pramāṇa)
- inherent existence (svabhāvasiddhi, sabhāvasiddha, Tibetan: rang bzhin gyis grub pa)
- initiation
- empowerment
- innate (sahaja, Tibetan: lhan skyes)
- innate self-grasping
- inner heat (candālī, Tibetan: gtum mo)
- insight knowledge (Pali: vipassanā-ñāṇa)
- insight (vipaśyanā, vipassanā, Tibetan: lhag mthong)
- insight wisdom (Pali: vipassanā-paññā)
- interpretable/provisional teachings (neyārtha, neyyattha, Tibetan: drang don)
- introspective awareness (saṃprajanya, sampajañña)
- invariable karma
- investigation (vitarka, vitarka, Tibetan: rtog pa)
- Jetavana
- karma
- karmic seeds (Imprints)
- kathina
- knowable object ( jñeya, Tibetan: shes bya)
- koan
- lamrim
- latencies (vāsanā)
- leapover meditative absorption (vyukrāntaka-samāpatti, Tibetan: thod rgyal gyi snyoms ’ jug)
- learner of parajika
- learning sign (Pali: uggaha-nimitta)
- liberated path (vimuktimārga, Tibetan: rnam grol lam)
- liberation (mokṣa, vimokṣa, vimokkha, vimukti, vimutti, Tibetan: rnam grol)
- liberation of mind by love (Pali: mettā cetovimutti)
- love (Pali: mettā, Sanskrit: maītri)
- Madhyamaka
- Mādhyamika
- maechee
- Mahāmudrā
- Mahaprajapati (Pali: Mahapajapati)
- Mahāvihāra
- Mahāyāna
- mala
- manatta
- maṇḍala offering
- manifest afflictions
- mantra
- Māra
- meditation
- meditational deity
- meditative equipoise on emptiness
- mental body
- mental consciousness (mano-vijñāna, mano-viññāṇa)
- mental contemplation (manaskāra, manasikāra, Tibetan: yid la byed pa)
- mental direct reliable cognizer
- mental factor (caitta, cetasika)
- merit (puṇya)
- meritorious karma
- migrating beings
- mind (citta, manas, vijñāna, Tibetan: sems)
- mind-made body (Pali: manomaya-kāya)
- mind training
- mindfulness of breathing
- mindfulness (smṛti, sati)
- mindstream (cittasaṃtāna, cittasantāna)
- mine-grasping (mamakāra)
- mistaken awareness
- momentary concentration (Pali: khaṇika-samādhi)
- momentary (kṣaṇika)
- monastic
- monk
- Mount Meru
- Mūlasarvāstivāda
- naihsargika-payattika (Pali: nissaggiya pacittiya)
- Nālandā tradition
- name and form
- natural nirvāṇa (prakṛti-nirvṛta)
- naturally abiding buddha nature (prakṛtisthagotra, Tibetan: rang bzhin gnas rigs)
- naturally negative actions
- nature truth body (svābhāvikadharmakāya)
- naturelessness (niḥsvabhāva, Tibetan: ngo bo nyid med pa)
- negative (pratiṣedha, Tibetan: dgag pa)
- New Translation schools
- ngondro
- nihilism (ucchedānta, vibhavadiṭṭhi)
- nikāya
- nimitta
- nine stages of sustained attention (navākārā cittasthiti, Tibetan: sems gnas dgu)
- Nirgranthas
- nirvāṇa (Pali: nibbāna)
- nirvāṇa with remainder (sopadhiśeṣa-nirvāṇa, sopādisesa-nibbāna)
- nirvāṇa without remainder (anupadhiśeṣa-nirvāṇa, anupādisesa-nibbāna, nirupadhiśeṣanirvāṇa))
- noble eightfold path (Pali: ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, Sanskrit: āryāṣṭāṅgamārga)
- nominal truths (vyavahārasatya, Tibetan: tha snyad bden pa)
- nominally different
- non-thing (abhāva, Tibetan: dngos med)
- non-wastage (avipraṇāśa, Tibetan: chud mi za ba)
- nonabiding nirvāṇa (apratiṣṭha-nirvāṇa)
- nonaffirming negative (prasajyapratiṣedha, Tibetan: med dgag)
- nonconceptual consciousness (nirvikalpaka, Tibetan: rtog med shes pa)
- nondeceptive (avisaṃvādi, Tibetan: mi slu ba)
- nonduality
- nonerroneous (aviparīta, Tibetan: phyin ci ma log pa)
- nonexistent (asat)
- nonmistaken (abhrānta, Tibetan: ma ’ khrul ba)
- nonreturner (anāgāmin, anāgāmi, Tibetan: phyir mi ’ong pa)
- object of knowledge
- object of negation (pratiṣedhya or niṣedhya, Tibetan: dgag bya)
- object (viṣaya, visaya, Tibetan: yul)
- objects of refuge
- observed object (ālambana, ārammaṇa, Tibetan: dmigs yul)
- occasionally produced
- offering
- once-returner (sakṛdāgāmin, sakadāgāmi, Tibetan: lan gcig phyir ’ong pa)
- one (ekatva, Tibetan: gcig)
- one final vehicle
- one nature
- ordinary being (pṛthagjana, puthujjana, Tibetan: so so skye bo)
- ordination (Pali: pravrajya)
- own-characteristics/specific characteristics (svalakṣaṇa, salakkhaṇa, Tibetan: rang mtshan, rang gi mtshan nyid)
- Pāli tradition
- parajika
- parinirvāṇa
- parivasa
- parmarabjung
- passing away (vyaya, vaya, Tibetan: ’ jig pa)
- path knowledge (Pali: magga-ñāṇa)
- path (mārga, magga, Tibetan: lam)
- path of accumulation (sambhāramārga, Tibetan: tshogs lam)
- path of meditation (bhāvanāmārga, Tibetan: sgom lam)
- path of no-more-learning (aśaikṣamārga, Tibetan: mi slob lam)
- path of preparation (prayogamārga, Tibetan: sbyor lam)
- path of seeing (darśanamārga, Tibetan: mthong lam)
- payantika (Pali: pacittiya)
- prayascittika
- perceptible form (vijñapti-rūpa)
- permanent (nitya, nicca, Tibetan: rtag pa)
- permanent, unitary, independent self
- permission (Tibetan: jenang)
- permissory ritual (Tibetan: rjes snang)
- person (pudgala, puggala, Tibetan: gang zag)
- pervasive duḥkha of conditioning
- phenomena
- pliancy (tranquility, praśrabdhi, passaddhi)
- pollutant (āsrava, āsava)
- polluted (contaminated, āsrava, āsava, Tibetan: zag pa)
- posadha (Pali: uposatha, Tibetan: sojong)
- posit (vyavasthāna, Tibetan: bzhag pa)
- positive (affirmative, affirmative phenomena, vidhi, Tibetan: sgrub pa)
- powa
- Prajñāpāramitā
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka
- pratidesaniya (Pali: Patidesaniya)
- prātimokṣa
- pravarana (Pali: pavāraṇā; Tibetan: gagye)
- invitation for feedback
- pravrajya
- precept
- ethical restraint
- vow
- preliminary practices
- preliminary sign (Pali: parikkamma-nimitta)
- preparatory stages for a dhyāna (access, preparations, sāmantaka, Tibetan: bsam gtan po’ i nyer bsdogs)
- priest
- primal substance (fundamental nature, prakṛti, pakati, Tibetan: rang bzhin)
- primary consciousness (vijñāna)
- pristine wisdom ( jñāna, Tibetan: ye shes)
- pristine wisdom of meditative equipoise (samāhitajñāna, Tibetan: mnyam bzhag ye shes)
- pristine wisdom of subsequent attainment (pṛṣṭhalabdha-jñāna, Tibetan: rjes thob ye shes)
- probing awareness (reasoning consciousness, yuktijñāna, Tibetan: rigs shes)
- production natureless (utpatti-niḥsvabhāvatā, Tibetan: skye ba ngo bo nyid med pa)
- proliferations (prapañca, papañca, Tibetan: spros pa)
- puja
- pure grounds
- pure lands
- pure vision teachings
- purification
- rabjung
- rains retreat (Pali: vassā, Sanskrit: varṣa)
- summer retreat
- realization (adhigama, Tibetan: rtogs pa)
- realized Dharma
- relative truth
- relative world
- reliable cognizer based on an example
- reliable cognizer based on authoritative testimony
- reliable cognizer (pramāṇa)
- resultant-birth absorption
- reviewing knowledge (Pali: paccavekkhaṇañāṇa)
- rigpa
- ripening result of karma (vipākaphala)
- sādhana
- saiksadharma (Pali: sekhiya, skyhya)
- siksakaraniya
- samādhi
- Sāṃkhya
- saṃsāra
- sangha
- sanghavasesa (Pali: sanghadisesa)
- Sanskrit tradition
- sanzen
- Sarvāstivāda
- Sautrāntika-Svātantrika Madhyamaka
- scriptural authority
- self (ātman, attan, Tibetan: bdag)
- self-centeredness
- self-existent
- self-grasping (ātmagrāha, attagaha, Tibetan: bdag ’ dzin)
- self-isolate person (Tibetan: gang zag rang ldog)
- self-sufficient substantially-existent person (Tibetan: gang zag rang rkya thub pa’ i rdzas yod)
- self-sufficient (Tibetan: rang rkya ba)
- selflessness of persons (pudgalanairātmya, Tibetan: gang zag gi bdag med)
- selflessness of phenomena (dharmanairātmya, Tibetan: chos kyi bdag med pa)
- sense direct reliable cognizers
- sense faculty
- sensual desire
- sentient being (sattva, satta, Tibetan: sems can)
- serenity (śamatha, śamatha, Tibetan: zhi gnas)
- sesshin
- seven awakening factors
- seven-limb prayer
- sign (nimitta)
- signlessness (ānimitta, Tibetan: mtshan ma med pa)
- siksamana (Pali: sikkhamana, Tibetan: gelopma)
- siksapada (Pali: sikkhapada)
- sila
- sima
- six perfections (ṣaḍpāramitā, Tibetan: phar phyin drug)
- skillful means
- slightly obscure phenomena (parokṣa)
- solitary realizer (pratyekabuddha, paccekabuddha, Tibetan: rang sangs rgyas)
- space particle
- special insight (Pali: vipassana, Sanskrit: vipasyana)
- sphere of three
- spiritual mentor (Sanskrit: guru Tibetan: lama)
- spiritual teacher
- sramanas
- sramanera (Pali: samanera)
- sramanerika (Pali: samaneri)
- śrāvaka (hearer, Pali: sāvaka, Tibetan: nyan thos)
- stabilizing meditation (sthāpyabhāvanā, Tibetan: ’jog sgom)
- stages of the path to awakening (Tibetan: lam rim)
- Sthavira
- sthulatyaya (Pali: thullaccaya)
- stream-enterer (srotāpanna, sotāpanna, Tibetan: rgyun zhugs)
- stupa
- subjective aspect (ākāra, Tibetan: rnam pa)
- subsequent attainment (pṛṣṭha-labdha)
- substantial cause (upādāna-kāraṇa, Tibetan: nyer len gyi rgyu)
- substantially existent (dravyasat, dabbasat, Tibetan: rdzas yod)
- subtle afflictions
- subtle latencies
- subtlest mind-wind
- suchness (tattva, Tibetan: de kho na nyid)
- superimposition (samāropa, Tibetan: sgro btags, sgro ‘ dogs)
- superknowledge (abhijñā, abhiññā, Tibetan: mngon shes)
- supernormal powers (ṛddhi, iddhi, Tibetan: rdzu ’phrul)
- supramundane (transcendental, lokottara, lokottara, Tibetan: ’ jig rten las ’ das pa)
- supreme dharma stage of the path of preparation
- sutra (Pali: sutta)
- Sūtrayāna
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka
- syllogism (prayoga)
- take refuge
- taking and giving (Tibetan: gtong len)
- taming
- tantra
- Tantrayāna
- teisho
- ten powers
- tenet (siddhānta, Tibetan: grub mtha’)
- tenet system/school
- terma
- terton
- Theravāda
- thesis (pratijñā)
- thing (bhāva, Tibetan: dngos po)
- thirty-seven aids to awakening (bodhipakṣya-dharma)
- thirty-seven harmonies with awakening
- thoroughly pacifying
- thought (kalpanā, Tibetan: rtog pa)
- three baskets
- three characteristics
- three criteria for existent phenomena
- three criteria of a correct inference or syllogism
- three higher knowledges (trividyā, Pali: tevijjā, Tibetan: rig gsum)
- three higher trainings
- Three Jewels
- Triple Gem
- three kinds of persons
- three poisonous attitudes
- three principal aspects of the path
- three principal realizations of the path
- three realms (tridhātuka, tedhātuka, Tibetan: khams gsum)
- torma
- tranquility
- transforming buddha nature (samudānītagotra, Tibetan: rgyas ’gyur gi rigs)
- transmitted (scriptural) Dharma
- Tripiṭaka
- true cessation (nirodhasatya)
- true cessation without remainder
- true duḥkha
- true existence (satyasat)
- true grasping
- true knowledge (vidyā, vijjā)
- true origins
- true path
- truth body (dharmakāya, Tibetan: chos sku)
- tulku
- turning the Dharma wheel
- twelve links of dependent origination (dvādaśāṅga-pratītyasamutpāda)
- twelve sources (āyatana, Tibetan: skye mched)
- twenty-two faculties (indriya)
- two truths (satyadvaya)
- ultimate analysis (Tibetan: don dam pa’ i dpyod pa)
- ultimate bodhicitta (paramārthabodhicitta)
- ultimate nature
- ultimate natureless (paramārtha-niḥsvabhāvatā)
- ultimate truth (paramārthasatya, paramatthasacca, Tibetan: don dam bden pa)
- uncommon four truths
- unconditioned
- underlying tendencies (anuśaya, anusaya)
- unfortunate realms (apāya)
- uninterrupted path (ānantaryamārga, Tibetan: bar ched med lam)
- union of serenity and insight
- union of serenity and insight on emptiness
- unpolluted (anāsrava)
- unpolluted karma
- unreliable awareness
- upadhaya
- upasaka
- upasampada (Pali: upasampanna)
- upasika
- Vaibhāṣika
- Vajrasattva
- Vajrayana
- diamond vehicle
- valid cognition
- vastu
- veil truth (saṃvṛtisatya)
- veilings
- very obscure phenomena (atyantaparokṣa)
- view of a personal identity grasping mine (mamakāra, Tibetan: nga yi bar ’ dzin pa’ i ’ jig lta)
- view of a personal identity (view of a [distorted] personal identity based on the transitory collection, satkāyadṛṣṭi, sakkāyadiṭṭh, Tibetan: ’ jig lta)
- view of rules and practices
- views
- vihara
- Vinaya
- white appearance, red increase, and black near attainment
- wind (prāṇa, Tibetan: rlung)
- wisdom realizing emptiness
- wisdom truth body (jnānadharmakāya)
- wishlessness (apraṇihita, Tibetan: smon pa med pa)
- worldly spirits
- worldly deities
- wrong or erroneous awareness (viparyaya jñāna)
- wrong views
- afflictive views
- distorted views
- Yogācāra (Cittamātra)
- Yogācāra-Svātantrika Madhyamaka
- yogi/yoginī
- yogic direct reliable cognizers
- zazen
- zendo
