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The "Lord who Sees," name of the Bodhisattva who embodies the speech and compassion of all the Buddhas; the Sambhogakaya emanation of the Buddha Amitabha; sometimes referred to as Lokeshvara, the Lord of the World. +
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Earth, water, fire, and wind or air, as principles of solidity, liquidity, heat and movement, and ether or space. +
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A system of teachings providing the means for traveling the path to enlightenment. There are three main vehicles: Shravakayana, Pratyekabuddhayana, and Bodhisattvayana. +
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The name of the third level in the second samadhi of the form realm. +
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(1) the suffering of suffering—pain as such; (2) the suffering of change—the fact that happiness is impermanent and liable to turn into its opposite; and (3) all-pervading suffering in the making—the fact that all actions grounded in the ignorance of the true nature of things will, sooner or later, bring forth suffering. +
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See Demon. +
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One of the four conditions systematized by Vasubandhu in his ''Abhidharmakosha'' to explain the functioning of causality. The other three are the causal condition (''rgyu'i rkyen''), the immediately preceding condition (''de ma thag pa'i rkyen''), and the objective condition (''dmigs pa'i rkyen''). +
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The twenty-four-hour pratimoksha vow, consisting of eight precepts and taken by laypeople. +
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The essence of buddhahood, the luminous and empty nature of the mind. +
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A foretaste or illustration of the absolute wisdom. Example wisdom is not totally devoid of conceptual mind. +
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Thatness, the nature of each and every phenomenon, emptiness beyond all conceptual constructions. +
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A master of Mahayoga and teacher of both Guru Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra. He composed the celebrated ''Gradual Path of the Magical Net''. +
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Teachers gather disciples by (1) their generosity; (2) the fact that their teachings are attuned to the minds of their disciples; (3) their ability to introduce disciples to the practice leading to liberation; and (4) the fact that they themselves practice what they preach. +
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The Lord of Death, a metaphorical personification of death. +
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A disciple of Nagarjuna, famed for his devotion. +
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''See'' Skillful means. +
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A technical term in Buddhist logic, used to refer to objects of the conceptual consciousness that identifies and names things. It thus refers to sense objects as apprehended by this consciousness, but also to imaginary objects that are mistakenly assumed to exist (e.g., the "self "). +
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Indian yogi of high accomplishment, author of three cycles of ''dohas'', or songs of realization. +
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A member of Nalanda university and the celebrated author of the Bodhicharyavatara (The Way of the Bodhisattva). He upheld the view of the Prasangika Madhyamika in the tradition of Chandrakirti. Shantideva was also the author of the ''Shiksasamuccaya'', a compendium of citations on discipline, which forms a valuable collection of texts that have otherwise been lost. +
