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Five Syllables Vidyā: Oṃ A Rā Pa Ca Na dhīḥ
Sanskrit: Oṃ Anutpāda
Rāga
Paramārtha
Caryā
Nairātmya
dhīḥ
literally: Om! No more birth, desire, supreme (dharma), practicing and nonselfhood.
Glossary
Mañjuśrī (Mañjuśrī-kumāra-bhūta): mañju (wonderful, gentle, charming, sweat) sri (auspicious, fortune, glory). One of the 8 maha-bodhisattvas (from bodhi-sakta: one who is orientated towards enlightenment) in Mahāyāna Buddhism. He is first mentioned in some of the early Mahāyā texts such as the Prajñā-pāramitā (Perfection of insight) Sutra and through this connection soon came to symbolize the embodiment of insight (prajñā). He is depicted in a peaceful form holding a raised sword (symbolizing the power of insight) in his right hand, and a book of the Prajñā-pāramitā Sutra in his left.
Anutpāda: utpada means birth, arising, production. Anutpana: means 1.unborn, not produced or
arisen, Since the original quality of all things is emptiness, there actually is no such thing
as arising, changing and ceasing. Therefore the term is equivalent to 1.'emptiness.' 2.The
transcendence of the world of delusion. The absolute-principle separated from arising and
cessation. 3.'Arhat', or 'nirvaana.' The condition of cessation of all defilements. 4. Death.
Rāga (trṣṇa, lobha): Desire, greed, craving, 'covetousness.' The mental action
of attaching to objects and situations that one finds to be compatible to one's own disposition.
It is first of 3 roots of evil- 3 Poisons (akuśala-mūla: craving, hatred, delusion).
'Ra' also stands for Rati, means pleasure or fondness for love.
Pratigha, dvẹsa, dọsa, kupita (Pali dosa, kupito). 'hatred', 'anger','enmity.' The
name of the mental action of hate and anger regarding situations or things that run counter to
one's own disposition, preventing the body and mind from having stability. In the
Abhidharmakośa-bhaasya, one of the undetermined elements, in the doctrine of the Yogaacaara
school, it is counted as one of the six primary defilements. This is the most basic form of anger
which has several distinctive manifestations, which are included in the secondary defilements.
Moha, mohavat, mudha: 1.Foolish, stupid, dull. 2.Ignorant, esp. in regard to true reality. The
condition of a beclouded mind that lacks the wisdom which penetrates to reality, thus becoming
the root cause of mistaken actions (ajñana). 3.Delusion, confusion, illusion, mistaken
conceptualization. 4.Confused, deluded. 5.The confusion caused by afflictions. Inability to
understand things. 6.Regular (unenlightened) person. "Worldling." 7.The first of the twelve
limbs of conditioned arising.
Paramārtha, parama, paramata, agra, pravara: Most excellent, greatest, superior, predominant and influential. It refers to spiritual wisdom or insight (prajñā), and/or dharma.
Aśaikṣa: "No-more-learning;" the stage at which one no longer needs religious training, as opposed to Learning. Another name for an arhat who has completed the course of practice. One who has attained the state of arhat, has already abandoned all defilement, so there remains nothing to learn and practice. The last of the four stages of the Śravaka path.
Caryā: performing, going about, wandering, practising, engaging. Non practising: 1.Non-functioning, non-active; no activity. 2.Not artificial or contrived. Natural. 3.Uncreated, unconditioned. 4.Without effect.
5.The absence of a desiring mind.
In Ch'an school, a way of describing the character of enlightenment, which focuses on the lack of attachment and false discrimination in the mind (apraptitva). Especially not to be attached to the effects of one's effort, not to be seeking anything, because "nothing to be attained," which
can also be interpreted as "nothing to be attached to."
Nairātmya (nairatma): non-selfhood, absence of self, selflessness (anātman; anattā, Pali).
The three marks (trilakṣaṇa), characteristics or attributes of all compound phenomena (existence):
anātman (selflessness), anitya (impermanence) and duḥkha (suffering).
Anātman: The lack of existence of an inherent self, soul, or ego, usually translated into English as "no-self". This is one of the most important philosophical concepts in all of Buddhism, and is recorded as having been one of the primary realizations attained by Sakyamuni
in his enlightenment experience.
Anitya: 'impermanence.' The fact that all things are impermanent is one of the basic premises of Buddhism. Everything is in constant motion and change. Lack of an eternal nature. One of the conditioned elements not concomitant with mind in Consciousness-only theory. In this case the term means 'disappearance.'
Dụhkha:1. Sorrow, suffering, affliction, pain, anxiety, incomfortableness. The first of the Four Noble Truths. 2. Conditioned existence, "dharmas with outflow" (asrava-dharma); manifest existence.
dhīḥ: seed syllable (in the center of the garland) which generates the mantra while in visualization.
