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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. +
nirmanakāya;the form in which a buddha appears to ordinary beings;the emanation body. +
bka' babs pa;definition=Literally,"a specially commissioned one." A disciple who is deemed specially qualified to carry out a teacher's charge with complete success. +
Lha;deva;Here, any deity of the Buddhist pantheon. +
nor bu;maṇi;Literally, a jewel. "Maṇi" is also a way of referring to the famed six-syllable mantra of Avalokiteśvara: ''oṃ ma ṇi pad me hūṃ''. +
rDo-rje-'chaṅ;Vajradhara;Literally, "Holder of the Vajra," Vajradhara is the name used for the Dharmakāya, or "Truth Body," of Buddha and for the deity who heads the tantric practice lineages. According to the various traditions of Tibetan tantrism, he is the source from which the tantric teachings originated and from which all such lineages issue. Thus, according to the Kagyüpas, the Mahāmudrā teachings were passed directly from Vajradhara to Tilopa and, through the latter, to Nāropa, Milarepa, etc. According to the Gelukpas, the Mahāmudrā lineage descended from the Buddha Vajradhara to Lord Mañjuśrī. Tsongkapa then received the teachings directly from Lord Mañjuśrī himself. +
dge slong;bhikṣu;A fully ordained Buddhist monk, who has taken the 253 vows of full ordination. +
lta ba;View;view;dṛṣṭi;Used especially of a philosophical position. +
