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A mudrā may be any sort of symbol. For instance, the white dharmacakra is a mudrā of Vairocana; the hooked knife is a mudrā of Vajravārāhī. Specifically, mudrās are symbolic hand gestures that accompany sādhana practices to state the quality of different moments of meditation.<br> More generally, mudrā is the provocative color of apparent phenomena. Mudra is self-evidencing, and the symbol and symbolized are inseparable. +
Also known as the ''Mahāratnakūṭa-sūtra'', an important collection of forty-nine mahāyāna sūtras. +
A male practitioner. +
Often used in the beginning of a song to pay homage. Hence: nāma uttarebhyaḥ (homage to the superior ones), nāmaḥ śrī gurave (homage to the glorious guru), namo gurave (homage to the guru), namo buddhāya (homage to the Buddha), namo guru-guṇasāgarāya (homage to the guru, the ocean of virtue), namo guru-padmākarāya (homage to the guru, Padmākara), namo guru-vajradharāya (homage to the guru, Vajradhara), namo guru-vajreśvarāya (homage to the guru, the vajra lord). +
Also called the seven vajrasṣ these are the seven points of meditation posture: (1) the legs crossed so that the feet rest on the opposite thighs, (2) the back is straight, (3) the eyes are cast diagonally downward, (4) the chin is slightly drawn in, (5) the shoulders are raised (like "the wings of a vulture"), (6) the tip of the tongue is raised to the pālate, and (7) the mind is calm ("really resting"). +
These seven aspects define the virtues of the sambhogakāya buddhas. According to Dilgo Khyentse, Rinpoche, these are the following: <br> Whatever manifestations of realms, pālaces, and forms there are, eaceful and wrathful qualities, they do not exist on a gross level. They are forms of śūnyatā endowed with all the supreme qualities. Therefore, they are known as possessing the aspect of being without self-nature. <br> The mind of hose buddhas are completely filled with the wisdom ofunchanging nondual bliss-emptiness. Therefore, they are known aspossessing the aspect of union. <br>Their body, speech, and mind are eternally filled with the taste of great bliss, free from increase and decrease. herefore, they are knownas possessing the aspect of great bliss. <br>In the realm and pālace, none of the chief and retinue, devas and devīs, have ever known suffering. They are completely endowed with all the good qualities of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. Therefore, they areknown as possessing the aspect of complete enjoyment. <br>Their wisdom of great bliss is free from meditation and postmeditation, neither increases nor decreases, and is without change or cessation.Therefore, they are known as possessing the aspect of freedomfrom interruption. <br>As for themselves, they achieved such virtues, but through compassion,they eternally care for confused sentient beings. Therefore, theyare known as possessing the aspect of having a mind completely filled with great compassion. <br>Their buddha activity tames others at all times in all directions throughout the three times. Therefore, they are known as possessingthe aspect of continuity. +
This flower is said to bloom once every thousand years. It is an analogy for the rarity and preciousness of the human birth. +
The sūtras are those hīnayāna and mahāyāna texts in the Buddhist canon that are attributed to Śākyamuni Buddha. They are found in the Kanjur (T: bka'-'gyur). <br>Sutra means meeting point, junction, referring to the meeting of Buddha's enlightenment and the student's understanding. A sūtra is usually a dialogue between the Buddha and one or more of his disciples, thus elaborating a particular topic of dharma. +
The vajrayāna practitioner's personal deity, who embodies the practitioner's awakened nature. Yidam is explained as a contraction of yid-kyi-dam-tshig, samāyā of mind. Yidams are sambhogakāya buddhas, which are visualized in accordance with the psychological makeup of the practitioner. The student first develops intense devotion toward his gru. This relationship makes it possible for the student to experience intuitive kinship with the lineage and then with his yidam. Identifying with the yidam means identifying with his characteristic expression of buddha nature, free of distortions. Through seeing his basic nature in this universalized way, all aspects of it are transmuted into the wisdom of the spiritual path. This leads directly to compassionate action-skillful and lucid.<br> Peaceful yidams inspire the student's gentleness, awakening openness. Semiwrathful yidams are the union of passion and anger in the transcendental sense-simultaneous magnetizing and destroying as an expression of the awakened state. Wrathful yidams are associated with the dynamic energy of "vajra anger," the primordial compassion that cuts through hesitations of idiot compassion and disbelieving in one's buddha nature. The male yidam (peaceful: bhagavat; semiwrathful: ḍāka; semiwrathful and wrathful: heruka) signifies awakened energy, skillful means, and bliss. The female yidam (peaceful: bhagavatī; semiwrathful and wrathful: ḍākinī) signifies compassion, emptiness, and prajñā. This emptiness is fundamental accommodation and ultimate fertility. Through union with the heruka, the ḍākinī can give birth to enlightenment. +
A feast offering; a practice in which desire and sense perceptions are made part of the path. By celebrating the phenomenal world, the practitioner simultaneously extends his understanding of sacredness and further surrenders ego. +
A strong sense of disgust for saṃsāra. It is nausea combined with clear seeing, rather than aggressive disgust. Revulsion leads to renunciation. +
One of the two stages of sādhana practice. In utpattikrama the practitioner develops and meditates with the visualization that is the focus of the sādhana. This stage has an emphasis on form, so that the practitioner appreciates the luminous and active nature of emptiness. +
The first of the three yānas, which is subdivided into the śrāvakayāna and pratyekabuddhayāna. +
A stanza of poetry. In the Sanskrit tradition, it has a particular kind of common epic meter. +
An Indian master, accomplished in all nine yānas. He was the successor to Garap Dorje (dga'-rab-rdo-rje), the first human guru in the Nyingma ati lineage. Milarepa is said to be an emanation of Manjuśrīmitra. +
Tibetan barley-beer. This term is also used in a general sense, referring to any liquor. +
A technical term in vajrayāna referring to the stage of practice where one abandons all concepts of meditation and nonmeditation and directly encounters the phenomenal world. +
A state of total involvement in which the mind rests unwaveringly, and the content of the meditation and the meditator's mind are one. There are many different kinds of samādhi, depending on whether the meditation is developed with a certain mental image, a principle such as compassion, or with the mind itself as the object of meditation, for example.<br> Samādhi refers to the principle of absorption in meditation, but does not specify the degree of insight (vipaśyanā, prajñā) that is present. Thus, it could refer to a conditioned state of concentration in the six realms in which the sense faculties are halted, or to an unconditioned, flowing, and unobstructed experience. +
A tantra of the anuttara tantra +
The intermediate state after death and before the next rebirth. It is said usually to last forty-nine days. +
