Transliteration: blang dor
<phrase> "Acceptance and rejection" or "acceptance/rejection". Common abbrev. of བླང་བ་དང་དོར་བ་ and meaning ཚུར་བླང་བྱ་དང་ཕར་དོར་བྱ། "what is to be taken up and what is to be discarded". A key term freq. used throughout all levels of Buddhist literature. One of several main threads of the Buddha's teaching was a clear statement of what should be taken up as suitable to the path and what should be discarded / rejected as unsuitable to the path. Altern. translations are "adopt and discard", "adopt and reject".