धर्मालोक (dharmAloka)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishdharmāloka, m., light of (? on) the doctrine
acc. to Sūtrāl. 〔xiv.26〕 comm., āloka iti dharmanidhyānakṣānter etad adhivacanam, āloka is a synonym for ‘readiness to meditate on the doctrine’ (but generally the word seems to be an appositional karmadh.): (avidyāmohāndhakārasya) mahāntaṃ °kaṃ kuryāṃ LV 〔205.3〕, may I make the great light of the doctrine against the darkness of ignorance and delusion
dharmālokasyādarotpādanārthaṃ LV 〔395.16〕, to produce respect for the light of the doctrine
(?) bodhisattvānāṃ … mahanto dharmāloko (but mss. dharma-loko) kṛto bhaviṣyati āśvāso ca datto bhavati Mv 〔ii.294.5〕 (as a result of a requested statement by the Buddha on how he attained enlightenment)
(-Kāraṇḍavyūhaṃ nāma) dharmālokaṃ nāma deśayitvā Kv 〔38.3〕
°ka-praveśa, (means of) ingress into the light of the doctrine (= °kamukha, see next) Dbh 〔38.1〕, where ten such are listed, viz. sattva-dhātuvicāraṇālokapraveśair, and (substituting for sattva in the same cpd.) loka-, dharma-, ākāśa-, vijñāna-, kāma-, rūpa-, ārūpya-, udārāśayādhimukti-, and māhātmyāśayādhimukti-. See under next.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetanchos snang ba
धर्मालोक
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