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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. +
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See the three kāyas. +
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The three bodies of the Buddha: the nirmāṇakāya, saṃbhogakāya and dharmakāya. The dharmakāya (the "truth body"), is the complete enlightenment of the Buddha which is unoriginated wisdom beyond form and manifests in the saṃbhogakāya and the nirmāiiakāya. The saṃbhogakāya (the "enjoyment body"), manifests only to bodhisattvas. The nirmāijakāya (the "emanation body") manifests in the ordinary world and in the context of the Uttara Tantra manifests as the Sākyamuni Buddha, +
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In the vajrayāna 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 +
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Literally means "great seal" and is the meditative transmission handed down especially by the Kagyu school. +
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Literally "heaps" are the five basic transformations that perceptions undergo when an object is perceived. These are form, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness. +
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In Sanskrit it means "perfect knowledge" and can mean wisdom, understanding, intelligence, discrimination, or judgement according to context. +
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There are two truths or views of reality—relative truth which is seeing things as ordinary beings do with the dualism of "I" and "other" and absolute truth, also called ultimate truth, which is transcending duality and seeing things as they are. +
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Literally means "solitary realizer" and in this text it is a realized hīnayāna practitioner who has achieved the jñāna of how-it-is and variety, but who has not committed him or herself to the bodhisattva path of helping others. +
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The Buddha's teachings correspond to three levels: the hĩnayāna, the mahāyāna, and the vajrayāna with each set being one turning. +
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Conditioned existence which is characterized by suffering in ordinary life because one is still afflicted by attachment, aggression, and ignorance. +
