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The ten powers of a tathāgata: (1) knowing what is possible and what is not possible, (2) knowing the results of actions, (3) knowing the aspirations of men, (4) knowing the elements, (5) knowing the higher and lower powers of men, (6) knowing the path that leads everywhere, (7) knowing the origin of kleśas, which leads to meditation, liberation, samādhi, and equanimity,(8) knowing previous lives, (9) the knowledge of transference and death, (10) knowing that the defilements are exhausted. +
A ceremony in which a student is ritually entered into a maṇḍala of a particular tantric deity by his vajra master. He is thus empowered to practice the sādhana of that deity. In anuttarayogayāna there are four principal abhiṣekas: (1) vase abhiṣeka (kālaśābhiṣeka) which includes the abhiṣekas of the five buddha families: water (vajra), crown (ratna), vajra (padma), bell (karma), and name (buddha); (2) secret abhiṣeka (guhyābhiṣeka); (3) prajñājñāna-abhiṣeka; and (4) fourth abhiṣeka (caturthābhiṣeka). <br> An abhiṣeka is usually accompanied by a reading transmission (T: lung) and a trio The lung authorizes the student to read and practice the text. The tri is the master's oral instructions on how to practice. ''See also'' reading transmission, tri. +
The highest of the six tantric yānas of the Nyingma school of Tibet (Old Translation schooṇ The six are kriyā, upa (caryā), yoga, mahāyoga, anu, and ati. Ati teachings are the final statement of the fruition path of vajrayāna. +
Utpattikrama and sampannakrama. +
An excrescence on the head of a buddha, which forms at the time of the attainment of enlightenment. +
The coming together of factors to form a situation. The Tibetan word has an additional connotation of auspiciousness. From the view of sacred outlook, coincidence gives rise to fitting, proper situations. +
Mahākālas are the chief dharmapālas, protectors of the dharma. They are either black or dark blue in color and wrathful. ''See also'' dharmapāla. +
One of the two central provinces of Tibet, the other being Tsang. +
Having calmed the mind through śamatha meditation, the practitioner may begin to have insight into phenomena. This clear-seeing of the patterns of mind and its world is known as vipaśyanā. It expands into prajñāpāramitā. +
A mahākalī, consort of Pernakchen (T: ber-nag-can), the central mahākāla of the Karma Kagyü. +
Blessed liquor, used in vajrayāna meditation practices. More generally, spiritual intoxication. +
Prajñā is the natural sharpness of awareness that sees, discriminates, and also sees through conceptual discrimination. "Lower prajñā" includes any sort of worldly knowledge (e.g., how to run a business, how to cook a meaṇ "Higher prajñā" includes two stages: seeing phenomena as impermanent, egoless, and suffering; and a higher prajñā that sees śūnyatā-a direct knowledge of things as they are. +
The three worlds of saṃsāra: the heaven of the gods (T: lha), the world of humans (T: mi), and the underworlds of nāgas (T: klu). +
The bodhisattva of compassion. The Gyalwa Karmapa is said to be an incarnation of this bodhisattva; so also is the Dalai Lama. +
One who has committed himself to the mahāyāna path of compassion and the practice of the six pāramitās. The bodhisattva's vow, taken in the presence of one's spiritual friend (S: kalyāṇamitra), is one of relinquishing one's personal enlightenment to work for all sentient beings. The vow is continually renewed in order to mix one's being with the mahāyāna mind of bodhicitta. Bodhisattva deities represent qualities of enlightened mind active in our life. +
According to the yogic teachings of the path of upāya, one way of attaining realization is to synchronize body and mind. This is done by meditating on nāḍī, prāṇa, and bindu in the illusory body. By analogy. prāṇa is like a horse, mind-consciousness like the rider, and nāḍīs are like the pathways. The bindu is mind's nourishment. <br> Because of lasping into duality, the prāṇa functions in the left and right channels, lalanā and rasanā, corresponding to the activities of subject and object and to karmic activity. Through practice, the prāṇas can be brought back into the central channel (S: avadhūti), and therefore transformed into wisdom-prāṇa, and mind can recognize its fundamental nature, realizing all dharmas as unborn.<br> This belongs to advanced practice and can only be learned through direct oral transmission from an accomplished guru. When the meditator is well-established in the fundamental nature of mind, he meditates with this directly, having dissolved nāḍī, prāṇa, and bindu into sampannakrama. This is known as the attainment of vajra body. speech, and mind. These stages of meditation technically belong to the category of "sampannakrama with signs and without signs." +
The southern continent or island of the Buddhist world-system named after the jambu (rose-apple) tree. The entire known world was regarded as Jambudvīpa. Since the buddhadharma is taught there, it is an auspicious place. +
Qualities of Vajradhara, very similar to the seven aspects of supreme union. +
Refers to the four meditation states of the rūpadhātu attained by advanced practitioners. However, these are still within the deva realm of saṃsāra. +
The phenomenal world directly seen from sacred outlook, once the obscurations have been cleared. +
