thob

• “Her travel-weary suit was traded for a thob aswad, a bluish-black voluminous dress with broad sleeves and deep, pointed lapels.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Black Madonna

• “The perishing of the karmic impulse and the attainment (thob-pa) on a mental continuum of the “not-yet-happening of the result” are both nonstatic phenomena and have a cause.”

  What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena

• “Conceptual and nonconceptual cognitions of voidness entail two phases, both of which occur during a meditation session on voidness: total absorption (mnyam-bzhag, meditative equipoise) cognition of voidness that is like space, subsequent attainment (rjes-thob, post-meditation, subsequent realization) cognition of voidness that is like an illusion.”

  6 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General

• “In addition, there is the positive force that ripens into the attainment (thob-pa) of a realization (rtogs-pa).”

  Inspiration (���Blessings���) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission

• “Lub zos Minneapolis tau txiav txim tso xov hais tias yuav muaj kev thob dau ceev.”

  A Dance to the Music of Life

• “Thus, from Gelug Prasangika point of view, all arhats – shravaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattva – have untainted aggregates during total absorption (mnyam-bzhag; meditative equipoise) on voidness and tainted aggregates during subsequent attainment (rjes-thob; post-meditation).”

  Fine Points Concerning the Physical Bodies of Buddhas and Arhats

• “Much of this discipline was later followed by the Indian tradition of greatly accomplished tantric practitioners (grub-thob chen-po, Skt. mahasiddha), found in both Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism.”

  The Life of Shakyamuni Buddha

• “But tantra study and practice flourished more outside the monasteries, especially with the tradition of the eighty-four mahasiddhas (grub-thob chen-po), between the eighth and the twelfth centuries CE.”

  A Brief History of Buddhism in India before the Thirteenth-Century Invasions

• “It refers to a correct realization of the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths and their lack of the two types of impossible “souls” that an arya maintains during subsequent attainment (rjes-thob, post-meditation) periods.”

  The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path)

• “Thus, in all our behavior, the supreme way of acting is without a duality between total absorption (mnyam-bzhag, “meditative equipoise”) on mind-itself and subsequent attainment (rjes-thob, “post-meditation”) realization of everything existing and functioning like an illusion.”

  Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 2 Eliminating Confusion about the Practice of the Path

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