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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. +
A set of the Buddha's teachings from the first turning of the wheel of Dharma in which he described the characteristics of, among other things, the sources of consciousness, aggregates, and dhatus. In these teachings, the Buddha did not explicitly refute the true existence of the phenomena that he described. He did explicitly refute their true existence, however, in the teachings of the second turning of the wheel. +
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The original nature present in all beings which when realized leads to enlightenment. It is often called the essence of Buddhahood or enlightened essence and is the topic of the Uttara Tantra. +
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An person who has committed him or herself to the mahāyāna path of compassion and the practice of the six pāramitās to free beings from saṃsāra. +
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Tibetan for luminosity. In the vajrayāna everything is void, but this voidness is not completely empty because it has luminosity. Luminosity or clarity allows all phenomena to appear and is a characteristic of emptiness (śūnyatā). +
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In Sanskrit a "thunderbolt" which was a weapon of Indra. In Tibet it generally means anything invincible or indestructible or "diamond-like." +
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An advanced state in which the mind is in one-pointed meditation. It is also called "meditative absorpiton. +
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The first teaching of the Buddha and the foundation of Buddhism. These are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the cessation of suffering, and the eightfold path to enlightenment, +
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These are special "miraculous" powers of the Buddha +
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The four qualities that one achieves with complete enlightenment. Being inconceivable to ordinary persons they are loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, +
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An eon which lasts in the order of millions of years. +
