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One of the epitaths given to the Buddha, +
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See kāyas. +
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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 +
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Maitreya In this work this refers to the Bodhisattva Maitreya who lived at the time of the Buddha. +
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A great scholar. +
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Usually translated as "voidness" or "emptiness." In the second turning of the wheel of dharma the Buddha taught that external phenomena and internal phenomena are devoid of any real inherent existence. +
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A type of being who is always starved for food and water. See the six realms of saṃsāra. +
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Accomplished hinayāna practioners who have eliminated the kleśa obscurations. They are fully realized śrāvakas and pratyekabuddha. +
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There are two truths: relative and absolute. Relative truth is the perception of an ordinary (un- enlightened) person who sees the world with all his or her projections based on a false belief in ego. +
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Religious people who believe in a personal self. Also referred to as icchantikas. +
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The three poisons or major defilements also called desire or attachment, anger or aggression, and ignorance or bewilderment. +
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One of the three major traditions of Buddhism (the hīnayāna, the mahāyāna and the vajrayāna). The vajrayāna was based on the tantras and became the major tradition of Tibet. +
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The saṃbhogakāya and the nirmāṇakāya. +
