Tibetan Buddhist philosophical concepts

Śūnyatā ( ; ; "emptiness", "voidness", "vacuity") is an Indian philosophical concept In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context; an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.

In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhicitta ("aspiration to enlightenment" or "the thought of awakening") is the mind (citta) that is aimed at awakening (bodhi) through wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings.

thumb|upright=1.2|A white Tibetan script|Tibetan letter A inside a rainbow thigle is a common symbol of Dzogchen. The Sanskrit letter A is also a common symbol for non-arising in Mahayana Buddhism.

thumb|Tibetan art|Tibetan illustration of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the post-mortem intermediate state (bardo). Some Tibetan Buddhists hold that when a being goes through the intermediate state, they will have visions of various deities. In some schools of Buddhism, bardo ( Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as ''chū'u'') is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. The concept arose soon after Gautama Buddha's death, with a number of earlier Buddhist schools accepting

thumb|Ashtamangala: first row (left to right): parasol, pair of golden fish, conch; second row: treasure vase, lotus; Last row: infinite knot, victory banner and wheel.

hidden teachings in various Buddhist traditions

thumb|upright=1.2|Chöd practitioners at Boudhanath stupa

thumb|280px|Tibetan letter "A" inside a thigle. The A, which corresponds to the sound ‘ahh’, represents kadag while the thigle represents lhun grub.

Doctrine within Tibetan Buddhism

it is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Buddhist philosophical concept which means five kinds of wisdoms appearing when the mind is purified