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All practice prior to the attainment of the path of seeing, in which ultimate reality is perceived directly, is regarded as being of the nature of aspiration or interest. +
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''See'' Four continents. +
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''See'' Sugatagarbha. +
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The name of an immense cosmic mountain, acting as the axis of the universe and around which are located the four continents. Every universal system has its Mount Meru and four continents. +
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A universal monarch, the name given to a special kind of exalted being who has dominion over a greater or lesser part of the three-thousandfold universe. According to traditional cosmology, such beings appear only when the human life span surpasses eighty thousand years. By analogy, the word is also used as a title for a great king. +
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''See'' Tripitaka. +
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A celebrated fourth-century master of the Theravada, contemporary of Asanga and Vasubandhu. He was the author of the ''Visuddhimagga'', a text greatly revered in Theravada Buddhism as the classic presentation of their tradition. +
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The ultimate view of the Nyingma school: the union of primordial purity (''ka dag'') and spontaneous presence (''lhun grub''), in other words, of voidness and awareness. ''See also'' Ati, Atiyoga. +
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The cessation of afflictive emotion brought about by an analytical understanding, or wisdom, that eliminates the conditions in which such affliction can occur. The cessation itself is a nirvana (the "small nirvana" of Arhats) and is regarded as an "uncompounded phenomenon." +
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A disciple of Vasubandhu and master and exponent of both the Hinayana and Mahayana teachings. He is celebrated as the great authority on the Vinaya and composed the famous ''Vinaya-sutra''. +
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According to Buddhist teaching, true existence implies characteristics, such as indivisibility, immutability, and so on. +
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''See'' Relative truth. +
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According to the Hindu Samkhya philosophy, the conscious Self, real and eternal, the counterpart of prakriti, the primal substance. ''See also'' Prakriti. +
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The community of Buddhist practitioners, whether monastic or lay. The term "Noble Sangha" refers to those members of the Buddhist community who have attained the path of seeing and beyond. +
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A technical term in Buddhist epistemology, referring to the consciousness that generally detects the presence of an object, whereas the different types of mental factors (''sems byung'') apprehend, and react to, particular aspects of that object. +
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Members of an ancient Indian philosophical school professing metaphysical nihilism. The Charvakas denied causality, the law of karma, and the existence of past and future lives. +
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A practice consisting of the visualization of the guru (in whichever form), prayers and requests for blessing, the visualized reception of these blessings, and the merging of the mind in the guru's enlightened wisdom mind. Guru yoga is the single most important practice of tantric Buddhism. +
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A general term referring to the six samsaric realms. ''See also'' Desire realm. +
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(280—360 c.e.). The only acharya who enjoys equal prestige as an exponent of both the Hinayana and the Mahayana. During his Sarvastivadin phase he composed the ''Abhidharmakosbabhasya'', which is the most systematic and complete exposition of the Abhidharma and marks the summit of hinayana scholarship. Later in life, through his own inner development and under the influence of his elder brother Asanga, Vasubandhu adopted the mahayana yogachara view and composed many works of which the ''Trimsikavij-napti-karika (Thirty Stanzas on the Mind)'' is the most outstanding. +
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In the Buddhist tradition, this name refers to the chief divinity residing in the form realm. +
