vimukti [vimutti] liberation. There are three approaches to attain vimukti. These approaches are based on the three aspects of mind, namely, will, emotion and knowledge. Aspirants may adhere to determination, tranquillity or wisdom in order to attain liberation. Those who are endowed with determination consider all formations impermanent and attain the signless or conditionless liberation. Those who are endowed with tranquillity consider all formations as sufferings, and attain the desireless vimukti. Those who adhere to wisdom and consider all formations devoid of the self attain emptiness or void. The first and the second are known as cetovimukti. The third is known as prajñā-vimukti which takes place after the eradication of the āsava-s of heart.     Other classification of vimukti deals with five kinds of emancipation. They are

(1) Freedom from defilements for a long time due to sustained mental absorption. In this kind of emancipation the five hindrances (nīvaraṇa-s) are suspended during absorptions just as a pot thrown into the water pushes the moss aside. This kind of emancipation is known as vikkhambhana vimutti.
(2) Momentary freedom from the view that the conditioned phenomena are permanent, unchanging and have a soul. This kind of emancipation is obtained through contemplation upon the impermanent, soulless and everchanging nature of the phenomena. The emancipation is known as tadaṅga vimutti.
(3) Freedom attained through uprooting of defilements on attainment of the four mārga-s. In this state after the attainment of the knowledge of the Noble Path, fetters are destroyed like a tree struck by lightning. This kind of emancipation is known as samuccheda vimutti.
(4) Freedom from defilements attained through the four fruitions. It is the attainment of tranquillity. In this kind of emancipation extinction of fetters takes place. The fetters are forever stilled. This kind of emancipation is known as paṭipassaddhi vimutti.
(5) Freedom from defilements attained through the realisation of nirvāṇa. In this kind of emancipation known as nissaraṇa vimutti all wrong views are extinguished.

Buddhānusmṛti - A Glossary of Buddhist Terms

Aṭṭhasālinī. I. 148-149, 288, 305; III. 543. A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma. IX. 347. Dīgha Nikāya. Mahāsīhanāda, Mahāsāropama, Mahāvedalla, Nandakovāda. Saṃyutta Nikāya. Godatta, Upassaya. Visuddhimagga. IV. 134-135.

vimukti

(Sanskrit; Pāli, vimutti). Liberation; the release from suffering and rebirth (saṃsāra) attained through a realization of the Four Noble Truths. In the Mahāyāna, there are three so-called ‘gates’ to liberation which are said to facilitate release: emptiness (śūnyatā), signlessness, or the absence of perceptual forms (animitta); and wishlessness, or the absence of purpose or desires (apraṇidhāna). To these a fourth item is sometimes added, namely intrinsic luminosity (prakṛti-prabhāsvara). In Pāli sources, two kinds of ‘gates to liberation’ (vimokkha-mukha) are distinguished, namely freedom through understanding (paññā-vimutti) and freedom through mind (ceto-vimutti). The former is intellectual in nature and cultivated through the practice of insight meditation (vipaśyanā), while the latter involves transic states of consciouness and is cultivated through calming meditation (śamatha). The ideal is to be one who is ‘freed in both ways’ (ubhato-bhāga-vimutta), as the Buddha was understood to be, but it is thought to be possible to attain liberation through insight alone (paññā-vimutti): such a one is then known as ‘dry-eyed’ or ‘dry visioned’ (sukkha-vipassaka).

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

rnam grol

[tenses]

• 'grol
• 'grold
• grol
• grold

[translation-san] {LCh} vimukti

[translation-san] {C} vimukta

[translation-san] {L} vimuc-

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} release

[translation-eng] {C} freed (from); emancipated; free

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

rnam par grol ba

[tenses]

• 'grol
• 'grold
• grol
• grold

[translation-san] {C} nirmukta

[translation-san] {C} vinirmukta (=vyatirikta)

[translation-san] {C,MSA,MV} vimukti

[translation-san] {C} vimucyate

[translation-san] {MSA} mocana

[translation-san] {MSA} vimukta

[translation-san] {MV} vinirmukta

[translation-san] {C,MSA} vimokṣa

[translation-san] {MSA} vimocana

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} released; liberated; liberation

[translation-eng] {C} sundered from; freed; outside; distinct; escaped; free from; deliverance; free; emancipation; be freed from; set free; freedom

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

rnam par grol bar byed pa

[tenses]

• 'grol
• 'grold
• grol
• grold

[translation-san] {MSA} vimukti

[translation-san] {MV} vimuc

[translation-san] {MV} vimocayati

[translation-san] {MV} vimocana

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} liberate

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary