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An Indian Arhat, a direct disciple of Buddha Shakyamuni. +
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Progress toward enlightenment is described, in both the Mahayana and Hinayana, in terms of the five paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, meditation, and no more learning. The first four constitute the path of learning (''slob pa'i lam''); the fifth one, the path of no more learning (''mi slob pa'i lam''), is buddhahood. The paths of seeing and meditation are also termed "noble path." +
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Spontaneous discipline arising from a total freedom from attachment. The vow of discipline is possible only against the background of desire (the basic expression of which is ego-clinging), for it is the principal antidote to it. Yogis who are free from desire (and who therefore have no need to take such a vow) possess a discipline that is entirely natural to them. This is also said to be the case for the inhabitants of Uttarakuru, the northern continent. +
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The symbol of the Buddha's teachings. ''See also'' Three turnings of the Dharma wheel. +
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The perception of the world as the pure display of the kayas and wisdoms, in other words, as a buddhafield. Tending in this same direction is the contrived pure perception of a practitioner who endeavors to view everything purely, while still on the conceptual level. +
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''See'' Five Bodies. +
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Sixteen hells, four in each direction, where suffering is slightly less than in the hot hells around which they are situated. +
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A threefold categorization of phenomena consisting of the imputed reality, dependent reality, and completely existent reality, as presented in the sutras of the third turning of the wheel of Dharma. The interpretation of this threefold distinction varies according to the philosophical outlook of the commentator. +
apprehended and apprehender with different substances with respect to external objects ''phyi rol gyi don la ltos pa'i gzung 'dzin rdzas gzhan'' +
emptiness of duality of the apprehended and apprehender gzung 'dzin gnyis stong +
conceptually superimposed through listening and thinking thos bsam gyi rtog pas sgro btags pa +
(1646-1714). Another name of Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje. A celebrated tertön and founder of the monastery of Mindroling, a major center of the Nyingma tradition in Central Tibet. Terdag Lingpa compiled the Nyingma kahma, the collection of the long (oral) lineage of the Nyingma school, and made a collection of all the earlier terma, or treasure teachings. +
''See'' Avalokiteshvara. +
lit. primordial-wisdom being. Invoked, in the context of the practice of the generation stage (''bskyed rim''), from the wisdom expanse of the dharmakaya. It then merges with, and abides in, the heart of the samayasattva (the commitment being), namely, the visualized meditational deity. +
A tenth-ground Bodhisattva and the personification of the wisdom of all the Buddhas. +
The twofold status of every phenomenon: apparent existence on the relative level and emptiness of inherent existence on the ultimate level. The interpretation of the doctrine of the two truths is the criterion distinguishing the various levels of Buddhist tenet systems. +
Three dimensions that together constitute a single world-system. These are the desire realm (comprising the six realms of the gods, asuras, humans, animals, pretas, and hell-beings), followed by the heavens of the form realm and the formless realm. +
''See'' Old tradition. +
The Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, the latter consisting of the spiritual community of those who have attained the grounds of realization. +
