Property:Gloss-term
From Buddha-Nature
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four formless absorptions;four formless absorptions;states of deep meditative concentration four immeasurables meditation upon love, compassion, equanimity and joyfulness. +
karma;intentional action that determines the nature of future experience in accordance with the laws or moral causation. +
buddha;one who has removed every gross and subtle obscuration veiling the mind and has developed all good qualities, such as wisdom, compassion and skilful means, to the full. +
Particularist;particularist;Vaisheshika;or Particularist;a non-Buddhist school teaching a path to liberation employing ablutions, fasts, etc. +
Shākyamuni;title conferred upon Gautama Buddha (sixth century BC);Sage of the Shākya Clan. +
impute;impute;designate;apprehend;the mental process by which phenomena are established to exist conventionally. +
samsara;cyclic existence +
Madhyamaka;a school of Buddhist philosophy formulated by Nāgārjuna, Chandrakīrti and others on the basis of the ''Perfection of Wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) Sutras'' of the Buddha. It emphasizes the voidness of all phenomena through a radical denial of any notions such as substance, essence, and inherent existence. Through understanding voidness one is freed from the ignorance that keeps one bound to samsara. +
Hīnayāna;those paths of Buddhist thought and practice stressing the attainment of individual or self-liberation from the sufferings of cyclic existence;the so-called lesser vehicle. +
aggregates;aggregates;the various mental and physical constituents of conditioned existence, specifically of the person.the various mental and physical constituents of conditioned existence, specifically of the person. +
yidam;yidam;a meditational deity visualized and invoked in tantric practices with whom the practitioner learns to identify. +
ignorance;ignorance;unknowing;specifically the deluded mental factor that is mistaken about the actual way in which things exist;the root of cyclic existence and all suffering. +
bodhisattva;a Mahāyāna practitioner;someone striving to gain the full enlightenment of buddhahood in order to benefit others. +
aversion;aversion;the deluded mental factor that seeks to be separated from and generates anger towards unpleasant objects. +
arhat;one who has achieved liberation from cyclic existence: the goal of the Hinayāna practitioner. +
mandala;a circular diagram symbolic of the universe;the visualized abode of a meditational deity. +
dharmakāya;the unobscured, omniscient mind of a buddha;the truth body. +
Sāṃkhya;Enumerator;a non-Buddhist school asserting twenty-five categories of objects of knowledge. +
inherent existence;inherent existence;the falsely conceived way in which phenomena are believed to exist, i.e. without depending upon parts, causes and mental imputation. +
