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Disciple of Shakya Shri (thirteenth century) and exponent of the three vows. +
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A ritual offering in tantric Buddhism in which oblations of food and drink are blessed as the elixir of wisdom and offered to the yidam deity as well as to the mandala of one's own body. +
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''See'' Luminosity. +
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(1).The paramita of transcendent wisdom, the knowledge of emptiness; (2) the collection of sutras belonging to the second turning of the Dharma wheel and expounding the doctrine of shunyata, the emptiness of phenomena. +
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A term used to refer to any meditational deity, a symbol of the ultimate nature of the mind. +
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A system of thirty-seven factors practiced on the paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, and meditation, by means of which progress is made toward enlightenment. +
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(1182—1251). Regarded as an emanation of the Bodhisattva Manjushri, one of the most illustrious masters in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Belonging to the Sakya school, he was a great polymath and Sanskritist. His work on the three types of vow, ''The Three Vows Distinguished'', was and is extremely influential. +
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The enlightened body, speech, mind, qualities, and activities of the Buddhas. +
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A Kashmiri master, the last abbot of Vikramashila, who visited Tibet in the early thirteenth century. He was the source of the lineage of monastic ordination called the Middle Vinaya lineage (''bar 'dul'') of the Ngor branch of the Sakya school. +
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''See'' Paramita. +
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One of six classes of beings in samsara. The asuras are usually considered to be similar to the gods, with whom they are sometimes classified. Their dominant emotional characteristic is envy, and they are constantly at war with the gods, of whom they are jealous. +
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The psychophysical channels located in the body, which act as the paths for the subtle wind energies that transport the essences. There are three main channels and thousands of subsidiary ones. The system of channels, energies, and essences is the basis for yogic practice. +
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Faith, discipline, generosity, learning, sense of shame, consideration of others, and wisdom. +
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''See'' Vajrayana. +
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The first of the Bodhisattva grounds, corresponding to the path of seeing. +
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The Fully Awakened One, a being who has removed the emotional and cognitive veils and is endowed with all enlightened qualities of realization. +
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(1) Buddhahood for oneself and (2) the temporary and ultimate fulfillment of other beings. +
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A transcendent perfection or virtue, the practice of which leads to buddhahood and which therefore forms the practice of Bodhisattvas. There are six paramitas: generosity, ethical discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom. According to another reckoning there are ten paramitas, these six with the addition of a further four, regarded as aspects of the wisdom paramita. They are: skillful means, strength, aspiration, and primordial wisdom. +
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Suchness, the ultimate nature of phenomena—emptiness. +
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Action, the psychophysical principle of cause and effect according to which all experiences are the result of previous actions, and all actions are the seeds of future existential situations. Actions resulting in the experience of happiness are defined as virtuous; actions which give rise to suffering are described as nonvirtuous. +
