Dharmalokamukha, Dharmālokamukha, Dharmaloka-mukha: 5 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
1. Mahayana
Languages
1. Sanskrit
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Introduction:

Dharmalokamukha means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Dharmālokamukha (धर्मालोकमुख) refers to the “gate into the light of the dharma” (Cf. Prakṛtiviśuddhimukha), according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Then the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja said this to the congregation of Bodhisattvas: ‘Sons of good family, may all of you elucidate the gates into the dharma of transcending the path of the works of Māra’ [...] The Bodhisattva Śailaśikharasaṃghaṭṭanarāja said: ‘Just as the wind enters through a chink, just so the māra can find a weak point where there is a chink in thought. The Bodhisattva therefore should not have any chink in his thought. Here, the thought without chink is, that is to say, to fulfill the emptiness endowed with all sorts of excellencies ([...]). This is the gate into the light of the dharma (dharmālokamukha) that the Bodhisattva transcends the sphere of the Māra’”.

context information

Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Dharmālokamukha (धर्मालोकमुख).—nt. (see under prec., and compare dharma-mukha), entrance, means of ingress, into the light of the doctrine: Mahāvyutpatti 6973 = Tibetan chos snaṅ baḥi sgo, ‘door’ (or entrance) to the light of dharma; in Lalitavistara 31.2 ff. a list of 108 dharmālokamukhāni; compare the ten dharmāloka- praveśa, s.v. dharmāloka; evamrūpasarvasattvasaṃjñā- [Page282-a+ 71] panaṃ dharmālokamukhaṃ Gaṇḍavyūha 304.26; dharmālokamukhe- nāntaḥpuraṃ pratyavekṣamāṇo Lalitavistara 207.1, looking upon the harem by the door of the light of the doctrine (i.e. by entering into that light? perhaps substantially by way, by the path or means, of that light; but the alleged use of mukha in the sense of means is certainly very rare in both Sanskrit and Pali and probably not to be admitted, unless as a deliberate and intentional figure).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dharmālokamukha (धर्मालोकमुख):—[=dharmāloka-mukha] [from dharmāloka > dharma > dhara] n. introduction to the light of the l°, [Lalita-vistara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Dharmalokamukha in German

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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