On this page are some common and/or important Buddhist terms which may not commonly occur in mantras. They are in the siddhaṃ script, and in the order of the Sanskrit Alphabet.
Words
- abhaya
- adhiṣṭhāna
- amṛta
- ahiṃsa
- indriya
- uṣṇiṣa
- ūrna
- karma
- citta
- jñāna
- tathāgata
- tathatā
- darśana
- dharma
- nidāna
- nirvaṇa
- paramita
- prajñā
- pratītyasamutpāda
- buddha
- bodhi
- maṇḍala
- manas
- mantra
- marga
- maitri
- yoga
- lakṣana
- vajra
- vijñāna
- vimokṣa
- samādhi
- śamatha
- saṃskṛṭa
- satya
- sangha
- sūtra
- smṛti
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The Perfectly Enlightened One’s mantras
Are made up of syllables, names, or clauses;
Like the statements made by Indra
They are meaningful and effective
- Kukai Shōji jissō gi
The Lankavatara Sūtra says that meaning can be conveyed by words (Section LXV), but meaning is “that which leads to nirvaṇa, which is free of speech discrimination". It tells us that words depend on the act of speaking (Section XXXĪI), and that they are important for the aspects of speech - in this case name (nāma), sentence (pada) and syllable (vyañjana) – to be clear.