མ་དག་ལས་སྣང་
Transliteration: ma dag las snang
<phrase> "Impure karmic appearances". The karmically-produced appearances that occur in the minds of sentient beings because of མ་རིག་པ་ ignorance. The consciousness that has such appearances is a འཁྲུལ་ཤེས་ confused consciousness. These are impure appearances as opposed to དག་སྣང་ the pure appearances that occur to beings with ཡེ་ཤེས་ wisdom. When these impure appearances are stopped, pure…
ལས་སྣང་
Transliteration: las snang
<phrase> "Karmic appearances"; see མ་དག་ལས་སྣང་ impure karmic appearances.
འཁྲུལ་ཤེས་
Transliteration: 'khrul shes
<noun> "Confused consciousness" or "confused awareness". Translation of the Sanskrit "bhrāntijñāna". Meaning འཁྲུལ་པའི་ཤེས་པ་; see འཁྲུལ་པ་ "confusion". 1) In general, an awareness which is mistaken with regard to its perception. 2) In particular, consciousness which is a confused type of consciousness, i.e., which is fundamentally confused about reality. E.g., see མ་དག་ལས་སྣང་ "impure karm…
སྣང་གྲག་
Transliteration: snang grag
<phrase> Lit. "sights and sounds" as in whatever སྣང་བ་ sights are appear to the eyes and གྲག་པ་ sounds are heard with the ears. However, the term usually means "the appearances that come to mind through the five senses, what is seen, heard, and so on". The term is used heavily in Vajra Vehicle literature with this overall meaning. The reason for mentioning only sights and sounds despite in…
དག་སྣང་
Transliteration: dag snang
<noun> 1) "Sacred outlook", also commonly translated as "pure perception". Secret mantra terminology regarding the approach to post-meditation. The practitioner engages in changing their perception so that everything is seen as དག་པ་ purity. In this way their perceptions are synchronized with the ཡེ་དག་པ་ primordial purity that actually exists. 2) "Pure Vision" or "Vision". See བརྒྱུད་པའི་བ…
མ་དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་
Transliteration: ma dag pa'i snang ba
<phrase> "Impurity's appearances" or "appearances due to impurity" meaning the appearances that occur to a being in cyclic existence because of the impurity in their being. These are the same as འཁྲུལ་སྣང་ appearances of confusion q.v. E.g., ཡེ་ཤེས་མེ་ཡིས་མ་དག་སྣང་བ་བསྲེགས། "appearances due to impurity incinerated by wisdom fire".
ཐ་མལ་མ་དག་པའི་སྣང་བ་
Transliteration: tha mal ma dag pa'i snang ba
<phrase> "Common / ordinary, impure appearances". Like ཐ་མལ་པའི་སྣང་བ་ q.v. for explanation except this includes མ་དག་པ་ "impure" because of these appearances arising on the basis of ignorance.
ས་མ་དག་པ་
Transliteration: sa ma dag pa
<phrase> "The impure bhumis" or "the impure levels". See ས་དག་པ་ q.v.
