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According to the Yogacara school this is the eighth consciousness and is often called the ground consciousness or store-house consciousness. +
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Also called Chittamatra. This is one of the major schools in the Mahayana tradition. +
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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. +
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A trantric deity that embodies qualities of Buddhahood that is practiced in the vajrayana. +
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The fourth practice of the preliminary practices. +
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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. +
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Literally, those who have gone beyond. This refers to the bodhisattvas. +
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An accomplished practitioner +
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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). +
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Enlightened wisdom which is beyond dualistic thought. +
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A great pandita or great scholar or teacher. +
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Karma is a universal law that when one does a wholesome action one circumstances will improve and when one does an unwholesome action negative results will eventually occur from the act. +
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These are the six sensory consciousnesses of sight hearing, smell, etc. Sixth is the mental consciousness. Seventh is afflicted consciousness and eighth is ground consciousness. +
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This has two main meanings: Any truth such as the sky is blue and secondly as it is used in this text, the teachings of the Buddha (also called buddha-dharma). +
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The texts of the vajrayana teachings. +
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Literally, extinguished. Individuals live in samsara and with spiritual practice can attain a state of enlightenment in which all false ideas and conflicting emotions have been extinguished. This is called nirvana. +
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The all encompassing space which is unoriginated and beginningless out of which all phenomena arises. +
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Literally, the mind of enlightenment. There are two kinds of bodhichitta- absolute bodhichitta which is completely awakened mind that sees the emptiness of phenomena and relative bodhichitta which is the aspiration to practice the six paramitas and free all beings from the sufferings of samsara. +
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A basic meditation practice aimed at taming and sharpening the mind. It is also called basic sitting meditation. +
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The three bodies of the Buddha: the nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya and dharmakaya. The dharmakaya, also called the "truth body", is the complete enlightenment or the complete wisdom of the Buddha which is unoriginated wisdom beyond form and manifests in the sambhogakaya and the nirmanakaya. The sambhogakaya, also called the "enjoyment body," manifests only to bodhisattvas. The nirmanakaya, also called the "emanation body" manifests in the world and in this context manifests as the Shakyamuni Buddha. +
