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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. +
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Dharmatā is often translated as "suchness" or "the true nature of things" or "things as they are." It is phenomena as it really is or as seen by a completely enlightened being without any distortion or obscuration so one can say it is "reality." +
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Literally means "action" and karma is a natural law stating that when one does a wholesome action, one's circumstances will improve; when one does an un-wholesome action negative results will eventually occur from the act. +
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A subde state of mind and according to tantric teachings is the state of mind that highest realization is attained. +
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Literally, those who have gone to "thatness" A title of the Buddhas. +
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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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See kāyas +
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Enlightened wisdom which is beyond dualistic thought +
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Traditionally, a practitioner goes through five stages or paths to enlightenment. These are The Path of Accumulation (Skt. sambhāramārga) which emphasizes purifying one's obscurations and accumulating merit. The Path of Junction or Application (Skt. prayogamārga) in which the meditator develops profound understanding of the four noble truths and cuts the root to the desire realm. The Path of Insight or Seeing (Sk. darśanamārga) in which the meditator develops greater insight and enters the first bodhisattva level. The Path of Meditation (Skt. bhāvanamārga) in which the' meditator cultivates insight in the 2nd through 10th bodhisattva levels. And the Path of Fulfillment (Skt. aśaiksammārga) which is the complete attainment of buddhahood. +
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A school founded by Asaṅga in the fourth century and is usually translated as the Mind Only School. It is one of the four major schools in the mahāyāna tradition and its main tenet (to greatly simplify) is that all phenomena are mental events. +
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A great Buddhist scholar (paṇḍita). +
