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An individual who has committed him or herself to the mahayana path of compassion and the practice of the six paramitas to achieve Buddhahood in order to free all beings from samsara. More specifically those with that motivation who have achieved liberation from samsara and are one of the ten bodhisattva stages that culminates in Buddhahood. +
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A philosophical school founded by Nagarjuna in the 2nd century. The main principle of this school is proving that everything is empty of self-nature as usually understood using rational reasoning. +
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Phenomena as it really is, not as it is perceived and this is often translated as "suchness" or "the true nature of things," or "things as-they-are." +
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These are a belief in the existence of everything (also called "eternalism"), a belief that nothing exists (also called "nihilism"), a belief that things exist and don't exist, and that reality is something other than existence and non-existence. +
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Buddha nature or that enlightened essence present in all beings that allows them to have the capacity to achieve enlightnement. It is closely related to tathagatagarbha. +
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The Madhyamika 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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One usually begins the vajrayana path by doing the four preliminary practices which involve doing 100,000 refuge prostrations, 100,000 vajrasattva mantras, 100,000 mandala offerings, and 100,000 guru yoga supplications. +
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These six special yogic practices were transmitted from Naropa to Marpa and consist of tummo or the subtle heat practice, the illusory body practice, the dream yoga practice, the luminosity practice, the ejection of consciousness practice and the bardo practice. +
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Also called meditative absorption or one-pointed meditation and is the highest form of meditation. +
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Literally means "great seal" or "great symbol." This meditative transmission emphasizes perceiving mind directly rather than through skillful means. +
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This is the seed or essence of tathata (suchness) and is also called buddha essence or enlightened essence. +
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Life supporting energy. +
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The seventh of the eight consciousnesses. See consciousnesses, eight. +
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Usually translated as the Mind-only School and is one of the major schools in the Mahayana tradition. +
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The existence in samsara is in one of three realms: the desire realm in which beings are reborn into the six realms of samsara based on their karma; the form realm in which beings due to the power of their meditation are born with immaterial bodies; the formless realm in which beings with meditative absorption have entered a state of meditation after death, where the processes of thoughts and perception have ceased, and there is thus no bodies, and no actual realms, environments, or locations. +
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In the vajrayana there are two stages of meditation: the development and the completion stage. The completion stage is a method of tantric meditation in which one attains bliss, clarity, and non-thought by means of the subtle channels and energies within the body. See development stage. +
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See tranquility meditation +
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A Buddhist practitioner who has chosen to unconventional path of practicing. +
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In the vajrayana there are two stages of meditation: the development and the completion stage. This is a method of tantric meditation involving visualization and contemplating deities for the purpose of realizing the purity of all phenomena. In this stage visualization of the deity is established and maintained. +
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The original nature present in all being which when realized leads to enlightenment. It is often called the essence of Buddhahood or enlightened essence. +
