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All positive actions performed on the basis of a belief in a truly existent agent, act, and object, and which are productive of samsaric happiness. +
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lit. the ambrosia that overcomes the Demon of Death. The draft of immortality and symbol of wisdom. +
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The Shravaka level of realization, the attainment of which implies no further rebirth in the desire realm. This is not to be confused with the Mahayana level of Nonreturner, which indicates that the Bodhisattva in question will not return to the samsaric state of mind, even though he or she will continue to manifest in the world in order to assist others. +
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lit. hero. A name given to male Bodhisattvas in the tantras; the male equivalent of a dakini. +
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''See'' Three dimensions of existence. +
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A concretion found in the stomachs or entrails of certain animals and which is endowed with medicinal properties. +
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A classification of sufferings particularly associated with the human condition. These are birth, old age, sickness, death, and the sufferings of encountering enemies, of being separated from loved ones, of not having what one wants, and of having to put up with what one does not want. +
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Brother of the religious king Ralpachen. When the latter was murdered by his Bönpo ministers in the year 906, Langdarma became king. He persecuted Buddhism and almost succeeded in eradicating it, especially in its monastic form, from Tibet. After six years of rule he was assassinated by a Buddhist yogi. +
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A magical tree which has its roots in the asura realm but bears its fruit in the divine sphere of the Thirty-three. +
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lit. the ground-of-all. According to the Mahayana, this is the fundamental and indeterminate level of the mind, in which karmic imprints are stored. +
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lit. all-concealing truth. This refers to phenomena in the ordinary sense, which, on the level of ordinary experience, are perceived as real and separate from the mind and which thus conceal their true nature. +
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''See'' Four continents. +
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The paths of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas. The expository vehicle is so called because (1) it expounds the path that leads to the attainment of the goal and (2) the practitioners of this vehicle work only with the causes that bring forth—in a direct sense—the result of their particular path (e.g., arhatship in the case of Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas) and, indirectly, the final result of buddhahood. In contrast with the expository vehicle of causality, one speaks also of the resultant vehicle. This is so called because here the result of the path (namely, the empty and luminous nature of the mind) is utilized and practiced as the path. The resultant vehicle is another name for the Vajrayana. +
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The field of refuge, the Three Jewels, and so forth, visualized as seated in the center and on the four great branches of a tree, for the purposes of taking refuge. ''See also'' Field of merit. +
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''See'' Ground. +
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These are: (1) the preemptive halting of negativities not yet generated; (2) the rejection of negativities already arisen; (3) the solicitation of positive states not yet present; and (4) the protection from decline of positive states already generated. +
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''See'' Padmasambhava. +
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A master belonging to the Lower school of Svatantrika Madhyamika and commentator on the ''Bodhisattva Grounds'' by Asanga. +
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A "Solitary Buddha," one who, without relying on a teacher, attains the cessation of suffering by meditating on the twelve links of dependent arising. Pratyekabuddhas realize the emptiness of the person and go halfway to realizing the emptiness of phenomena. In other words, they realize the emptiness of perceived phenomena—but not that of the subject, the perceiving mind. +
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A transgression of one of the precepts, which, if not properly confessed and repaired, will result in rebirth in the lower realms. +
