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Term	Translation of Term / Title
Shvetambara
siddhanta	سيدانتا
sidereal zodiac
sights Tib: gzugs Skt: rupa Nonstatic phenomena that can be explicitly cognized by eye consciousness -- namely, colors and shapes. Equivalent to "forms of physical phenomena that can become objects of experience of the eyes." One of the eleven types of forms of physi ... (more)
silashin	سيلاشين
similar-family cause Tib: rigs-'dra'i rgyu Skt: sajatiyakaranam A cause that is in the same family or category of phenomenon as is the result. For example, a model of a vase is the similar family cause for a vase that one is now making.
simultaneous realization and liberation Tib: rtogs-grol dus-mnyam
simultaneously acting cause
simultaneously acting condition Tib: lhan-cig byed-pa'i rkyen; lhan-cig byed-rkyen Skt: sahakaripratyaya An item that must exist prior to the arising of something and which assists in making the arising happen, but which does not transform into what arises, for instance water for a sprout.
simultaneously arising Tib: lhan-skyes Skt: sahaja Two items simultaneously arise if, when one of them arises or happens, the other does also, at the same time. The two items may arise simultaneously either naturally or through the power of meditation. Also called: innate.
simultaneously arising as merged Tib: lhan-cig skyes-sbyor
simultaneously arising cause Tib: lhan-cig 'byung-ba'i rgyu Skt: sahabhuhetu A cause that arises simultaneously with its results, such as the elements that make up a material object.
simultaneously arising greatly blissful awareness Tib: lhan-skyes bde-ba chen-po
sin
sincerity Tib: bsam-pa Sincerity has two factors included in it: (1) lack of hypocrisy (g.yo-med) – not hiding our own faults, (2) lack of pretension (sgyu-med) – not pretending to have qualities that we do not have.
single bhikshu sangha ordination Tib: pha'i dge-'dun rkyang-pa'i bsnyen-par rdzogs-pa
single taste Tib: ro-gcig
single-minded
single-minded concentration
single-pointed Concentration settled on an object or settled in a state of mind (such as compassion) and free of all flightiness of mind and mental dullness.
single-pointedness Tib: rtse-gcig; rtse-gcig-tu byed-pa In the context of the nine stages of settling the mind into a state of shamatha, the eighth stage. Here, by just relying on a slight effort to apply mental glue at the beginning of the session, we are able to sustain our concentration unin ... (more)
singular sufficient white panacea Tib: dkar-po chig-thub Also called: all-curing single white epanacea, single white remedy, self-sufficient white remedy
sinking
six alternatives and four modes Tib: mtha’-drug tshul-bzhi
six powers Tib: stobs-drug