རྣམ་པ་མེད་པ། | Glossary of Terms

རྣམ་པ་མེད་པ།

rnam pa med pa

aprakāra

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

1

aprakāra

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

aprakāra

རྣམ་པ་མེད་པ།

rnam pa med pa

aprakāra

Definition in this text:

Lit. “aspectless.” Name of a meditative stabilization.

3 passages contain this term

1

no aspect

The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines

no aspect

རྣམ་པ་མེད་པ།

rnam pa med pa

Definition in this text:

The 71st meditative stability in chapters 6 and 8. In Dutt 198, the Sanskrit is prabhākara, light maker.

3 passages contain this term

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AS

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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