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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. +
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This is one of the heaven fields of the Buddha. Tusita is in die saṃbhogakāya and therefore is not located in any place or time, twelve deeds of the Buddha Traditionally the Buddha per-formed 12 major deeds in his life. +
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These are the characteristics of buddha nature when it manifests as complete enlightenment. They are lucid clarity, purity, possessing characteristics of enlightenment, and the presence of nonconceptual and analytical judgement. +
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The Buddhist teachings are often divided into the sūtras (the teachings of the Buddha), the vinaya (teachings on conduct) and the abhidharma (the analysis of phenomena). +
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An epithet for the Buddha. +
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See paths, five +
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Literally, "extinction" (of ignorance) and means liberation from saṃsāra and suffering, +
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Difficulties encountered by the practitioner. There are four kinds—skandhamāra which is inconect view of self, kleśamāra* which is being overpowered by negative emotions, mrtyumāra which is death and interrupts spiritual practice, and devaputramāra which is becoming stuck in the bliss that comes out of meditation. +
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A cakravartin, also called a universal monarch, is a king who propagates the dharma and starts a new era. +
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The possible types of rebirths for beings in saṃsāra: the god realm in which gods have great pride, the asura realm in which the jealous gods try to maintain what they have, the human realm which is the best realm because one has the possiblity of achieving enlightenment, the animal realm characterized by stupidity, the hungry ghost realm characterized by great craving, and the hell realms characterized by aggression. +
