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One who has dispelled (Tib. sangs) the darkness of the two obscurations and developed (Tib. rgyas) the two kinds of omniscience (knowing the nature of phenomena and knowing the multiplicity of phenomena) +
The original state of the mind: fresh, vast, luminous, and beyond thought +
The obscurations of afflictive emotions and conceptual obscurations. +
The world of desire, the world of form and the world of formlessness. Alternatively (Tib. 'jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum): the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nagas under the earth +
The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things +
The normal preoccupations of unrealized people without a clear spiritual perspective. They are: gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy +
The meditation associated with sadhana practice in which one purifies oneself of one's habitual clingings by meditating on forms, sounds, and thoughts as having the nature of deities, mantras, and wisdom. +
An important Sakyapa master (1182-1251), also known as Kunga Gyaltsen +
The founder of the Yogachara School and author of many important treatises, in particular the five teachings he received from Maitreya (fourth century) +
The demon of the aggregates, the demon of afflictive emotions, the demon of the Lord of Death, and the demon of the sons of the gods (or demon of distraction). +
One of Jigme Lingpa's four principal disciples, and the root teacher of Patrul Rinpoche +
An important Indian master who held an important place in the lineages of the Great Perfection. He went to Tibet in the eighth century, where he taught extensively, and composed and translated numerous Sanskrit texts. The quintessence of his teaching is known as the Vima Nyingtik +
Habitual patterns of thought, speech, or action created by one's attitudes and deeds in past lives +
Also translated as “renunciation”: the deeply felt wish to achieve liberation from samsara +
Also harmful action, unwholesome act, evil: an action—physical, verbal, or mental—that produces suffering +
The Buddha of our time, who lived around the fifth century b.c +
The absolute or ultimate nature; the empty nature of all phenomena +
A term used to describe the practice of a Bodhisattva, which combines skillful means and wisdom, the compassionate motivation of attaining enlightenment for the sake of all beings and the view of emptiness. +
A positive or virtuous act that serves as a cause propelling one towards happy states +
The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom +
