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The third section of the Tripitaka (the other two sections being the Vinaya and the Sutras). The Abhidharma is the corpus of texts expounding the metaphysical content of the Sutras. +
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(510—570 c.e.). A follower of Vasubandhu. It is said that he was the rebirth of a pigeon that had spent its life nesting near Vasubhandu's dwelling place, with the result that it heard the master's recitation of scripture so frequently that it was reborn as a human being and became one of his greatest disciples. +
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''See'' Mahayana. +
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lit. eight gatherings. A way of classifying the functions of the mind according to the Chittamatra school, also used in the Vajrayana. The eight types of consciousness are the five sense consciousnesses followed by the mental consciousness, the defiled emotional consciousness of conceiving "I," and the consciousness of the alaya, the fundamental level of the mind. +
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''See'' Two obscurations. +
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The expanse of ultimate reality, emptiness. +
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lit. joining ('' 'byor'') or union with the natural state of the mind (''rnal ma''). A term commonly used to refer to spiritual practice. +
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A tenth-ground Bodhisattva, one of the eight Close Sons of the Buddha. He is the personification of the body aspect and the wisdom of all the Buddhas. ''See also'' Asanga; Nagarjuna. +
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The Shravaka level of attainment, so called because it implies that one more birth in the desire realm is necessary before liberation is attained. +
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The fifth divine sphere of the desire realm, in which the gods can magically produce whatever they wish. +
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The perception of ordinary beings. The apprehension of phenomena in terms of subject and object, and the belief in their true existence. +
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An affirming negative is a negation in which the possibility of another (positive) value is implied. For example, in the statement "It isn't a cat that is on the roof," the presence of a cat is denied, but in such a way as to suggest that something else is there. Compare this with a nonaffirming negative (''med dgag''), which simply negates without any further implication, for example, in the statement "There is nothing on the roof." +
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Name of Gyalwa Longchenpa's autocommentary to the ''Mind at Rest (sems nyid ngal gso)'', one of the three treatises of the ''Trilogy of Rest (ngal gso skor gsum)'', a description of the entire path, up to and including the Great Perfection, which is expounded according to the scholarly method ("the great way of the panditas") and according to the experiential method of pith instruction ("the profound way of the yogis"). +
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One of the two main Shravaka disciples of the Buddha Shakyamuni, noted for his wisdom. ''See also'' Maudgalyaputra. +
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A verbal formula, often quite long, blessed by a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, similar to the mantras of the Vajrayana but found also in the sutra tradition. The term is also used to refer to the accomplishment of unfailing memory. +
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''See'' Five Bodies. +
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Also known as Shakra (''brgya byin''), the supreme god and king of the heaven of the Thirty-three, which is located in the desire realm. Indra is regarded as a protector of the Buddhist doctrine. +
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lit. thought-free wisdom. Primordial knowledge divested of all discursive activity. +
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The corpus of teachings and practices based on the tantras, scriptures that discourse upon the primordial purity of the mind. See also Expository vehicle of causality. +
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''See'' Tradition of Vast Activities. +
