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mngon byang lnga/
ID:
T49496
  • མངོན་བྱང་ལྔ (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > five enlightenments (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > ngönjang nga (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • > mngon byang lnga/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > pañcābhisaṃbodhi (Sanskrit, Latin script, Translation)
    • > pañcākārābhisaṃbodhi (Sanskrit, Latin script, Translation)
Etymology
Basic Syllabic Etymology:

Literally “manifest/higher-purified-five.” The term ngönjang (and its expanded version ngönpar jangchuppa, mngon par byang chub pa) was created to translate the Sanskrit abhisaṃbodhi, which connotes the highest, perfect enlightenment or awakening (that is, a Buddha's enlightenment). Here it refers to the five “awakenings” or “enlightenings" that result from the five-step process of deity yoga through which all Thus-Gone Ones lead the bodhisattva Sarvārthasiddhi (aka Siddhārtha) in the narrative recasting Shakyamuni’s enlightenment in tantric terms found at the beginning of the root Yoga Tantra text The Compendium of Reality of All Thus-Gone Ones.

The five-step process by which the bodhisattva Sarvārthasiddhi (=Siddhārtha) becomes fully awakened in the narrative recasting Śākyamuni's enlightenment in tantric terms, which is found at the beginning of the root yoga tantra text The Compendium of Reality of All Thus-Gone Ones (de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi de kho na nyid bsdus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo, Sarva-tathāgata-tattva-saṃgraha-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra). This five-step process is the earliest and most complete presentation of deity yoga found in a Buddhist tantra. Deity yoga is the practice of deconstructing one's identity and recreating oneself as a fully-awakened buddha, which is found only in tantric forms of Buddhism and is one of its unique features. The five-step process presented in The Compendium of Reality of All Thus-Gone Ones serves as the blueprint for generation-stage (bskyed rim, utpatti-krama) practices in later tantric Buddhist systems such as Mahāyoga and Niruttarayoga tantra. 

language:
English
Author:
Steven Weinberger
enumeration:
5
Other Dictionaries

Other Dictionaries

1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary

འབྱང་འབྱངས་བྱང་འབྱོངས་
Hopkins' Translations: the five clarifications; {T} the five manifest enlightenments ?

language:
Tibetan

2. Dan Martin Dictionary

Short for mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa lnga. 1. gzhi--stong pa nyid. 2. gdan--pad zla. 3. thugs--phyag mtshan. 4. gsung--yig 'bru. 5. sku--yongs rdzogs. Mkhyen-rab-rgya-mtsho 1557 244.4. Thondup, BM 19-20. zla ba las byang chub pa / nyi ma las byang chub pa / sa bon las byang chub pa / phyag mtshan las byang chub pa / sku yongs rdzogs las byang chub pa'o. 600 68. Beyer 109. Zhe-chen Rgyal-tshab's work on the Nine Vehicles, p. 38. In the 12th-cent. Zhi-byed history by Rog Rin-chen-shes-rab, (Zhi-byed Coll. IV 328.7), it is said that the Buddha Shākyamuni entered the womb in the manner of the Mngon byang lnga.

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English

3. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

  • fivefold manifest enlightenment, abhisambodhi, five aspects of true enlightenment, five awakenings, five aspects of manifest enlightenment, the. 1) གདན་, ཐབས་ཤེས་. 2) སྐུ་, སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ 3) གསུང་, མིང་གི་རྣམས་ 4) ཐུགས་, རིགས་ཀྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་ 5) རྣམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སེམས་དཔའ་, ཆོས་ཉིད་

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    English

  • five aspects of true enlightenment, abhisambodhi). Five aspects of visualization of a deity in the development stage: moon disc, sun disc, seed syllable, symbolic attribute and the complete form of the deity

    language:
    English

  • མངོན་བྱང་རྣམ་ལྔ་ fivefold true perfection

    language:
    Tibetan

4. Ives Waldo Dictionary

  • the five manifestations of enlightenment [R] abhisambodhi, five aspects of true/manifest enlightenment/ awakenings (gdmk)

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    English

  • the five manifestations of enlightenment [bskyed rim gyi lha sku'i sgom tsul zhig ste, zla ba las byang chub pa dang, nyi ma las byang chub pa dang, sa bon las byang chub pa dang, phyag mtsan las byang chub pa dang, sku rdzogs pa las byang chub pa ste lnga

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    English

  • the five manifestations of enlightenment

    language:
    English

5. Jim Valby Dictionary

SA mngon par byang chub, 5 actualizations (lotus moon seat, syllables, mind signs, mandala, primordial wisdom deity), five factors of realization which is a method of bskyed rim (zla ba las byang chub pa, nyi ma las byang chub pa, sa bon las byang chub pa, phyag mtshan las byang chub pa, sku rdzogs pa las byang chub pa, or (lotus seat, seed syllable, symbolic attributes, complete manifestation of the mandala of the Body, the deity of wisdom)

language:
English

6. Richard Barron Dictionary

five aspects of manifest enlightenment

language:
English

7. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo

[690] བསྐྱེད་རིམ་གྱི་ལྷ་སྐུའི་སྒོམ་ཚུལ་ཞིག་སྟེ། ཟླ་བ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང། ཉི་མ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང། ས་བོན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང། ཕྱག་མཚན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང། སྐུ་རྫོགས་པ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་སྟེ་ལྔ། ...

language:
Tibetan
enumeration:
5

8. dung dkar bod rig pa'i tshig mdzod chen mo

བསྐྱེད་རིམ་གྱི་ལྷ་སྐུའི་སྒོམ་ཚུལ་ཞིག་སྟེ། ཟླ་བ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ། ཉི་མ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ། ས་བོན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ། ཕྱག་མཚན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ། སྐུ་རྫོགས་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པའོ།།

language:
Tibetan

9. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary

བསྐྱེད་རིམ་གྱི་ལྷ་སྐུའི་སྒོམ་ཚུལ་ཞིག་སྟེ། ཟླ་བ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང་། ཉི་མ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང་། ས་བོན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང་། ཕྱག་མཚན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང་། སྐུ་རྫོགས་པ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་སྟེ་ལྔ།

language:
Tibetan

10. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo

བསྐྱེད་རིམ་གྱི་ལྷ་སྐུའི་སྒོམ་ཚུལ་ཞིག་ཟླ་བ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང༌། ཉི་མ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང༌། ས་བོན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང༌། ཕྱག་མཚན་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་དང༌། སྐུ་རྫོགས་པ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་སྟེ་ལྔ།

language:
Tibetan
Contemplative Traditions:
Tibetan Buddhist and Bönpo Meditation Systems & Techniques
Visualization:
self-visualization
Tantra-Based Meditative Systems and Techniques:
Generation Phase Practices: Deity Yoga and Maṇḍala Meditation

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