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Glossary.

Activity-consciousness
" yeh shih", "karmavijna"? the assertion of the "Will to Live."

Affectional hindrance
" fan nao chang", "klevarana", hindrance to the attainment of Nirvna, arising from the assertion of the "Will to Live."

Affirmation, or Non-emptiness,
" pu k'ung", "anyat", suchness as constituting the basis of reality; it is equivalent to the Tathgata's Womb.

All-conserving mind, The,
", a lai ya shih", or "tsang shih", or
" a li ya",
" mu mo shih", "laya-vijna", a stage in the evolution of suchness, in which consciousness is awakened to recognise a distinction between suchness and birth-and-death.

Aspiration
" fa hsin", "cittotpda", desire to attain the most perfect knowledge.

tman
" wu", (1) ego-soul; (2) noumenon or thing-in-itself. Antman is a negative form of the same.

Birth-and-death
" shng mieh", "samsra", the material principle in contradistinction to the formal principle, suchness.

Consciousness
" shih", "vijna", mentation in general.

Defilement
", jan", a cognisance of dual aspect of suchness; not necessarily moral or intellectual fault.

Dharma
" fa", (1) that which subsists, or substance; (2) law, doctrine, or regulative principle.

Dharmakya
" fa shn", absolute being, or absolute knowledge when considered from the idealistic point of view.

Ego
" i", "manas", the subjective mind which believes consciously or unconsciously in the existence of the ego-soul.

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Ego-consciousness
" i shih", "manovijna", egocentric thoughts in general; the mind that makes a deliberate assumption of a dualistic existence of the ego and the non-ego,

Enlightenment
" chiao" ("buddhi"?), another name for suchness, psychologically considered.

Evolving-consciousness
" chuan shih", "pravrtti-vijna", a state of suchness out of which mentation in general evolves.

Ignorance
" wu ming", "avidya", a state of suchness in its evolution; practically the same as birth-and-death.

Intellectual hindrance
" so chih chang", "jeyvarana", the hindrance to the attainment of Nirvna, which arises from intellectual prejudices.

Interrelated defilement
" hsiang ying jan", a conscious assertion of dualism.

Karma-hindrance, "yeh chang", "karmvarana", the hindrance in the way to Nirvna, that is brought forth by evil deeds done in previous lives.

Mahyna
" tai chang", literally, great conveyance, another name for suchness.

Means. or expediency
" fang pien", "upya", when philosophically considered, the process of evolution, whereby the unconditional suchness becomes conditional.

Mind
" hsin", "citta", relative aspect of suchness. Soul, mind, and suchness are to a certain extent synonymous, but in this translation the following distinction is made: Suchness, when unqualified, signifies its absolute aspect and is practically the same with the soul, while the term mind is used to denote a state of suchness in its operation or evolution.

Negation, or emptiness
" k'ung", "nyat", an aspect of suchness as transcending all forms of relativity.

Nirvna
" nieh p'an", the recognition of the truth or suchness.

Non-enlightenment
" pu chiao" ("nirbuddhi"?), another name for ignorance, psychologically considered. Non-enlightenment, defilement, birth-and-death, and ignorance, are more or. less synonymous and interchangeable.

Non-particularisation
" wu fn pieh", the subjective attitude that is free from a deliberate assertion of dualism; i is similar in a sense to Lao-Tze's "Non-assertion."

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Not-interrelated defilement
" pu hsiang ying jan", an unconscious assertion of dualism.

Particularisation-consciousness
" fn pieh shih", the consciousness that adheres to the dual aspect of existence; a synonym of phenomena-particularising-consciousness.

Prejudice
" fan nao", "rava" or "klea", the subjectivity that averts the due exercise of will and intellect.

Samdhi
" san mei", or
" ting", literally equilibrium, a state of consciousness in which all modes of mental activity are in equilibrium.

Soul
" hsin", "hrdaya" or "citta", that which constitutes the kernel of things, but not in the Christian conception of the word; a synonym of absolute suchness.

Soul as birth-and-death,
" hsin shng mieh", relative aspect of suchness as material principle; a synonym of ignorance.

Soul as suchness
" hsin chen ju", absolute aspect of suchness as purely formal.

Subjectivity
" wang nien", or
" wang nien hsin", or
" hsin nien", or simply
" nien", "smrti", literally, recollection or memory, or
" fn pih", particularisation; the mentation that is not in accordance with the conception of suchness.

Suchness
" chn ju", "bhtatathat", the highest reality, or the "purely formal" aspect of existence.

Tathgata's womb
" ju lai tsang", "tathgata-garbha", a state of suchness as containing every possible merit.

Totality of things
" fah chieh", "dharmadhtu", literally, the basis of things, that is, the universe as a whole.

Vow
" yan", or
" shih yan", "pranidhna", commonly translated prayer, but not in the Christian sense, for Buddhists think that a vow or vehement desire has power enough to achieve what is desired, according to their idealistic conception of the world.
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