bstan

• “These enemies are described as the "enemies of Buddhism" (bstan dgra); they are the "other" in opposition to which the person and the group define their identity.”

  The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II)

• “The ordinations they conferred mark the beginning of a period in Tibetan history known as the “Later Flourishing of the Teachings” (bstan-pa phyi-dar).”

  A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire

• “There are fourteen unspecified points (lung-du ma-bstan-pa bcu-bzhi), which are points about which Buddha did not specify an answer when asked.”

  The Fourteen Questions to Which Buddha Remained Silent

• “A Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra – or, more literally, A Brief Indication of the Graded Pathway Minds (Lam-gyi rim-pa mdo-tsam-du bstan-pa) – is an overview of the most important points for sutra and tantra meditation.”

  A Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra

• “As objects well known in the philosophical treatises (bstan-bcos-la grags-pa), sensibilia are thus the smallest spatial units of physical phenomena that are perceptible by the senses in one moment.”

  Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation

• “This is the case even when the tainted phenomenon is imputed on an unspecified item (lung ma-bstan, neutral), such as on the mere “me” and that unspecified item is imputed on a tainted phenomenon.”

  Dormant Grasping for True Existence According to Gelug Madhyamaka

• “Further, it is unspecified (lung ma-bstan) as either constructive or destructive.”

  Basic Features of the Gelug-Chittamatra System ��� 2 Specific Points Concerning the Three Types of Characterized Phenomena

• “Another Mahayana sutra, The Sutra Taught by the Arya Akshayamati (Blo-gros mi-zad-pas bstan-pa'i mdo, Skt: Arya Akshayamati-nirdesha Sutra), contains an explanation of the results that come in future lives from developing the four immeasurable attitudes in meditation.”

  The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon

• “According to the oral explanation of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche (mTshan-zhabs Ser-kong Rin-po-che NGag-dbang blo-bzang thub-bstan stobs-'byor), after wishing others never to be parted from the pure happiness (bliss) of enlightenment, one needs to reflect on why they have not yet reached that state.”

  The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon

• “Phenomena unspecified by being conjoined ( 'brel-bas lung ma-bstan) – the primary consciousness and congruent mental factors that take hold of words through term universals (sgra-spyi) – or that take hold of any other naturally unspecified phenomenon – and which are not motivated by constructive or destructive phenomena.”

  Constructive, Destructive, and Unspecified Phenomena

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