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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. +
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One of the epitaths given to the Buddha, +
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In Sanskrit it means "perfections." These are the six practices of the mahāyāna path: Perfection of generosity (dāna), of discipline (śīla), of patience (ksānti), of exertion (vīrya), of meditation (dhyāna), and of knowledge (prajñā) attachment, aggression and ignorance. +
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The Buddha, often called the Gautama Buddha, who is the latest Buddha and lived between 563 and 483 B. C. +
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Literally, a "vehicle" but in this text refers to a level of teaching. There are three main yānas (see hīnayāna, mahāyāna, and vajrayāṅa). +
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There is the body of ultimate truth (Skt. paramārthakāya) and the body of relative truth (Skt. samvrtikāya). This is the embodiment in relative truth. +
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Literally, the mind of enlightenment. There are two kinds of bodhicitta—absolute or completely awakened mind that sees the emptiness of phenomena and relative bodhicitta which is the aspiration to practice the six pāramitās and free all beings from the sufferings of saṃsāra. +
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The Buddhist teachings are divided into words of the Buddha (the sūtras) and the commentaries by others on the Buddha's works (śāstras). +
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These are a belief in the existence of everything ("eternalism"), a belief that nothing exists ("nihilism"), a belief that things exist and don't exist, and a belie, ṁat reality is something other than existence and non-existence. +
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Dharma has two main meanings: Any truth such as the sky is blue; second, as it is used in this text, the teachings of the +
