Nika Jovic

Nika Jovic

Nika Jovic is a translator and member of the Dharmacakra Translation Committee. She is affiliated with the Jonang Foundation and has translated works by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen: An Official Document of the King, the Spontaneously Present Dharmakāya and A General Commentary on All Profound Sutra and Tantra Teachings: Entitled, "Knowing One, All is Liberated." She has also participated in translating and editing for the 84000 project—namely, the Avalokīnīsūtra and the Bhadrakalpikasūtra. (Source Accessed Oct 23, 2024)

Tridharmacakrapravartana - Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources. Skt त्रिधर्मचक्रप्रवर्तन  Tib ཆོས་འཁོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་  

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Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib ཇོ་ནང་  

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Dharmakāya - "Truth body" or "true being" — One of the three bodies of a buddha. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, it often refers to a kind of fundamental principle or the true nature of reality itself. Skt धर्मकाय  Tib ཆོས་སྐུ་  Ch 法身  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Bhadrakalpikasūtra [आर्यभद्रकल्पिकनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa bskal pa bzang po pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [Sūtra of the Good Eon (84000)]. Translated by Ban de dpal dbyangs, Vidyākarasiṃha, Ska ba dpal brtsegs, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 94 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=94&typ=1.

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