saṃbhāra-mārga

(Sanskrit). The ‘path of accumulation’, the first of the five paths to Buddhahood (see pañca-mārga) in which one gathers the requisite accumulation of merit and awareness (puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāra).

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)