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See glossary of enumerations: thirty-two excellent qualities of the dharmakāya. +
The period of time from the dawn of one day to the dawn of the next one, made up of sixty ghaṭikās. See Kongtrul 1995, 159. +
Chakras in the right and left wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. +
The basic unit for time measurement in the system used by The Profound Inner Principles. One breath is the length of time a healthy individual takes to inhale and exhale. Six breaths make up one pāṇīpala; 360 comprise one ghaṭikā, or daṇḍa; 1,800 breaths are called a lagna, or major saṃkrānti; and 21,600 breaths comprise one solar day. +
Forms, feelings, discriminations, formative forces, and consciousnesses. +
Fifteenth century. Student of the fifth Karmapa and teacher of the sixth Karmapa. Also known as Ratnabhadra. +
Distinguishing the Vinaya (Vinayavibhaṅga, 'Dul ba rnam par 'byed pa) (Dg.K. 3); Basic Vinaya (Vinayavastu, 'Dul ba lung gzhi) (Dg.K. 1); Foundations of the Minor Vinaya (Vinaya-kṣhudra-vastu, 'Dul ba phran tshegs kyi gzhi) (Dg.K. 6); and Authentic Treatise on the Vinaya (Vinaya-uttaragrantha, 'Dul ba gzhung dam pa) (Dg.K. 7). GTCD. +
Word-meaning (tshig don), general meaning (spyi don), hidden meaning (sbas don), and ultimate meaning (mthar thug gi don). See Kongtrul 2005, 287–89. +
Rūpavajrā (gZugs rdo rje ma), Shabdavajrā (sGra rdo rje ma), Gandhavajrā (Dri rdo rje ma), Rasavajrā (Ro rdo rje ma), and Sparshavajrā (Reg bya rdo rje ma). +
The preliminary to the five stages (rim lnga, pañchakrama), the perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system. See Kongtrul 2007b, 179-82 and 298; and Kongtrul 2008. +
Agent, object, and action. +
Also known as Tsurphu Jamyang Chenpo (mTshur phu 'jam dbyangs chen po) (1424–82), he was a student of Vanaratna and Gö Lotsāwa ('Gos lo tsā ba), the author of the Blue Annals. See Roerich [1949] 1979, 805–37. +
The perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system consisting of speech isolation (ngag dben) or vajra repetition (rdo rje'i bzlas pa); mind isolation (sems dben); illusory body (sgyu lus) or self-blessing (bdag byin rlabs); luminosity ('od gsal); and unification (zung ' jug). See Kongtrul 2007b, 298; and Kongtrul 2008. +
A name for the red bindu (located four finger-widths below the navel) that relates to its shape. It may refer to the final vertical stroke mark in the letter a—the ा (from अ in Devanāgarī, rendered as A in Tibetan)—or to the Vartula script's representation of the letter A by a single vertical line. See Kongtrul 2007b, 159; and Roberts 2011, 703. +
Samādhis with respect to earth, water, fire, wind, blue, yellow, white, red, infinite space, and infinite consciousness. See Brunnhölzl 2011, 622n249. +
Root bindu free from conceptual elaborations (rtsa ba spros bral gyi thig le), bindus of deluded ignorance (' khrul pa ma rig pa'i thig le), and remedial bindus (gnyen po'i thig le); or the three bindus of mentation (yid), awareness (dran pa), and nonawareness (dran med). +
For a discussion of the Sanskrit translated by the Tibetan bla na med pa ("unexcelled") being niruttara, not *anuttara, see Dalton 2005, 152n84; and Sanderson 2009, 146. +
That which primarily produces a consciousness with the aspect of itself as its specific result. See Mind and Its World II Sourcebook 2007, 33–34. +
Six sense faculties and their six objects. +
Mere consciousness, or mere cognition. This term is also translated as "dependent nature," "other-powered nature," or "relative identity." See Kongtrul 2007a, 179–81 and 255–57; and Kongtrul 2012, 565–74. +
