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The emotional obscurations (in contrast to intellectual obscurations) which are usually translated as "poisons" or "defilements." The three main kleshas are (passion or desire or attachment), (aggression or anger); and (ignorance or delusion or aversion). The five kleshas are the three above plus pride and (envy or jealousy).  +
The advanced realization of the inseparability of samsara and nirvana and how these arise simultaneously and together.  +
A teacher from which one has received the instructions and empowerments that form the core of one's practice.  +
Vital essence drops located within the body and visualized in vajrayana practices.  +
A religious song spontaneously composed by a vajrayana practitioner. It usually has nine syllables per line.  +
According to the Yogacara school this is the eighth consciousness and is often called the ground consciousness or store-house consciousness.  +
Also called Chittamatra. This is one of the major schools in the Mahayana tradition.  +
The Madhyamaka or Middle-way school divided into two major schools: the Rongtong which maintains voidness is devoid of inherent existence and Shentong which maintains voidness is indivisible from luminosity.  +
A trantric deity that embodies qualities of Buddhahood that is practiced in the vajrayana.  +
There are three major traditions of Buddhism (hinayana, mahayana, vajrayana) The vajrayana is based on the tantras and emphasizes the clarity aspect of phenomena and is mainly practiced in Tibet.  +
In the vajrayana everything is void, but this voidness is not completely empty because it has luminosity. Luminosity or luminous clarity allows all phenomena to appear and is a characteristic of emptiness (shunyata).  +