Ten meanings of dharma (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་བཅུ་, Wyl. chos kyi don bcu)— Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche gives ten meanings for the term dharma, quoting from Vasubandhu’s Well Explained Reasoning:<br>
They all relate to the sense of ‘holding’, which is the meaning of dhṛ, the root of the word dharma.
The general usage in English for the typography of the term 'dharma' is to use an upper case when referring to Buddha's teachings, the path or the truth of cessation (cases 2, 3 & 7).