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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. +
One of the mahāsiddhas, known for eating fish-guts. +
The name of Milarepa, given to him by his father. +
The vehicle that carries the practitioner along the path to liberation. On different yānas, the landscape of the journey, the nature of the practitioner, and the mode of transportation are seen differently. There is a distinctive outlook, practice, action, and fruition in each yāna. Presenting a particular yāna depends on the evolutionary readiness of the student and the accomplishment of the teacher.<br> In vajrayāna teachings there are three yānas-hīnayāna, mahāyāna, and vajrayāna. They can be practiced simultaneously. Sometimes "one yāna" is spoken of, referring to this simultaneous practice, and to the fact that no matter what the teachings, the student must make a gradual journey from confusion to enlightenment.<br> According to the Rime (ecumenical) and the Nyingma traditions, there are a total of nine yānas: śrāvakayāna and pratyekabuddhayāna (together comprising hīnayāna), mahāyāna, and six tantric yānaskriyā, upa (caryā), yoga, mahāyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga. ''See also''hīnayāna, mahāyāna, vajrayāna. +
Trashi Öser's name in Sanskrit. +
According to the abhidharma, all materiality can be seen as having the aspects of earth (solidity, tangibility), water (cohesion), fire (radiation, sustaining), and air (movement). +
This refers to Vajradhara, who is said to be the dharmakāya level of the sambhogakāya. The five jinas or tathāgatas are more purely sambhogakāya emanations. Hence, Vajradhara is the sixth. +
The root of dualistic consciousness, and hence of saṃsāra. It is the eighth consciousness according to the Yogacāra abhidharma exposition of mind. From a vajrayāna perspective, this term is also used as a synonym for dharmatā, the absolute, primordial basis of both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. Ālaya-vijñāna can be abbreviated to ālaya. +
The first monastery built in Tibet, Samye was modeled after the Indian monastery Odantapurī. However, Samye's actual design is a combination of Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan styles. +
The lord of death, said to preside over the hells. +
A famous sūtra of the Buddha where he elucidates the practice of mindfulness. +
