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''See'' Expository vehicle of causality. +
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The second of the inner tantras, according to the system of nine vehicles used in the Nyingma tradition. Anuyoga emphasizes the perfection stage of tantric practice, which consists of meditation on emptiness, as well as the subtle channels, energies, and essence of the physical body. +
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A central principle of the Vajrayana. It is the view of the Mahayoga expounded in the tantra ''sgyu 'phrul dra ba'' (Fantasmagorical Net). All appearances, in their purity, are the mandala of the kayas and wisdoms. This comprises the superior relative truth. Being pure, they are all equal, wisdom and emptiness united. This is superior absolute truth. The "pure" status of the appearing mode and the "equal" status of the absolute mode of being are present indivisibly in every phenomenon. This is referred to as the great Dharmakaya. +
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This Sanskrit term is the normal word used to indicate the Doctrine of the Buddha. In fact the term has ten meanings (see note 82). The Dharma of transmission refers to the corpus of verbal teachings, whether oral or written. The Dharma of realization refers to the spiritual qualities resulting from the practice of these teachings. +
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Historical Buddha Gautama, who attained full enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya, circa 500 B.C.E. +
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lit. basket. Collection of scriptures. +
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lit. support of offering. Symbolic representation of the Buddha's enlightenment. Stupas, perhaps the most typical of Buddhist monuments, are to be found in a variety of forms all over the Buddhist world. They often contain the relics of enlightened beings and are objects of great reverence. +
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The absorption experienced by the insensate gods of the form realm and the gods of the formless realms. In this absorption, the sense consciousnesses are arrested although the defiled emotional consciousness (''nyon yid'') continues to function. +
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These are: (1) reliance not on the person of the teacher but on the teaching; (2) reliance not on the mere words of the teaching but on its intended meaning; (3) reliance not on the expedient but on the absolute meaning; and (4) reliance not on intellectual understanding but on nonconceptual wisdom that sees the absolute truth directly. +
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An ancient Indian measurement of distance which according to the ''Abhidharmakosha'' corresponds to 4.5 miles or 7.4 kilometers. +
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lit. "One who has gone thus." An epithet of the Buddhas. +
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''See'' Afflictions. +
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One of the greatest masters and scholars of Indian Buddhism. He went to Tibet in the ninth century where he taught and translated numerous Sanskrit texts. He was one of the principal sources, together with Guru Padmasambhava, of the Dzogchen teachings in Tibet. +
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Impermanent emotional and cognitive obscurations that afflict the mind but which, not being intrinsic to its nature, can be removed from it. ''See'' Two obscurations; Twofold purity. +
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''See'' Four continents. +
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Innate and conceptual apprehension of phenomena as inherently existent. +
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The two principal phases of tantric practice. The generation stage (''bskyed rim''), also referred to as creation stage or development stage, involves meditation on appearances, sounds, and thoughts as deities, mantras, and wisdom, respectively. The perfection stage (''rdzogs rim''), also referred to as completion stage, refers to the dissolution of visualized forms into emptiness and the experience of this. It also indicates the meditation on the subtle channels, energies, and essential substances of the body. +
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lit. enlarged vision or profound insight. Vipashyana is essentially the primordial wisdom that overcomes the ignorant belief in the existence of the self and realizes ultimate reality. +
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A billionfold cosmic system of universes, each of which comprises a Mount Meru and four cosmic continents. +
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The five wisdoms of buddhahood corresponding to the five Dhyani Buddhas or five Buddha families: mirrorlike wisdom (''me long lta bu ye shes'', Vajrasattva: vajra family), wisdom of equality (''mnyam nyid ye shes'', Ratnasambhava: the jewel family ), all-discerning wisdom (''so sor rtog pa'i ye shes'', Amitabha: the lotus family), all-accomplishing wisdom (''bya ba sgrub pa'i ye shes'', Amoghasiddhi: the action family), and wisdom of dharmadhatu (''chos dbyings ye shes'', Vairochana: the Tathagata family). +
