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The first tantric yāna, which emphasizes purity and the understanding that all phenomena are inherently pure, naturally sacred, and beyond fixation. The deities are visualized as external and the practitioner emphasizes purification and ritual action. +
Birthplace of Padmakara (Padmasambhava) and also said to be the region in which Tilopa resided. Geographically, Uḍḍiyāṇa probably lies in the area between Afghanistan and Kashmir. It is also regarded as the realm of the ḍākinīs. +
An epithet for Avalokiteśvara. +
One of the chief bodhisattvas, Manjuśrī is depicted with a sword and book. The sword represents prajñā. He is known as the bodhisattva of knowledge and learning and generally considered to be of the vajra family. +
The Buddha in human form. Originally used to refer to Śākyamuni Buddha. It often refers to the sambhogakāya and nirmāṇakāya together. In vajrayāna, it can refer to any enlightened being, anyone who embodies and manifests the essence of the Buddha. +
Advanced practice in the vajrayāna unifying visualization, prāṇāyāma (control of prāṇa) and physical posture. By working with the mind and body maṇḍalas together, the mind can be controlled. +
A river valley in Central Tibet, the cradle of Tibetan civilization. +
The four joys are associated with the third abhiṣeka: joy (S: ānanda), perfect joy (S: paramānanda), joy of cessation (S: viramānanda), and coemergent joy (S: sahajānanda). +
A type of deity whose function is to protect the practitioner from deceptions and sidetracks. Oath-bound to the dharma, not bound to the six realms, the dharmapālas fulfill the four karmas or enlightened actions of pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and destroying, thus serving and protecting the integrity of the teachings and practice. +
Thevajrayāna principle of commitment, whereby the disciple's total experience is bound to the path. When the vajra master performs abhiṣeka, the disciple's being is bound together with the master and the deities of the maṇḍala. The disciple becomes irrevocably committed to regard his master as an embodiment of enlightenment, and to retain sacred outlook in all his experience. During the abhiṣeka ceremony, the disciple formally takes the samāyā oath. However, in some sense, the samāyā principle becomes active as soon as master and student establish a vajrayāna relationship.<br> The samāyā vow is experiential and can be violated in a moment of thought. As Atīśa said, "keeping samāyā is like keeping a mirror polished-as soon as you have cleared it, dust begins to alight." The most important samāyā is a proper attitude toward one's root guru. Besides that, the principal points are maintaining the essence of hīnayāna and mahāyāna discipline, and extending sacred outlook throughout one's experience. ''See also'' root downfalls, fourteen. +
The western buddha field of Amitābha. +
An epithet for a buddha. +
The sambhogakāya buddha of the buddha family. +
Solitudes of body, speech, and mind. +
The essence of reality, completely pure nature. +
Four important days in the life of Śākyamuni: when the māras tried to seduce him, his enlightenment and death (occurred on the same day), his first teaching, and when he returned from teaching his mother in the god realm. +
Originally an epithet for a buddha, it has come to be used in connection with enlightened beings generally. In ''The Rain of Wisdom'', the capitalized "Victorious One"refers to Śākyamuni Buddha and lower case "victorious ones" to buddhas generally. When "victorious one" is used in connection with a teacher's name, the implication is that he is to be viewed as a buddha. +
All-encompassing space, unconditional totality-un originating and unchanging-in which all phenomena arise, dwell, and cease. +
Various medicinal substances: yellow myrobalan (T: a-ru; Terminalia chebula), beleric myrobalan (T: ba-ru; Terminalia belerica), emblic myrobalan (T: skyu-ru; Emblica officinalis), bamboo manna (T: cu-gang), musk (T: gla-rtsi), and solidified elephant bile (T: gi-wang). +
A heruka of the mother order of anuttara tantra, belonging to the padma family; he is a particularly important yidam in the Kagyü lineage. +
