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The southern continent according to Buddhist cosmology, the world in which we live +
The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence +
The hells, the preta realm, and the animal realm +
One of the eighty-four mahasiddhas of India; teacher of Naropa +
A unit of time (of inconceivable length) used in Buddhist cosmology to describe the cycles of formation and destruction of a universe, and the ages of increase and decrease within them +
Chenrezi, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and essence of the speech of all the Buddhas +
A scholar, someone learned in the five traditional sciences (crafts, medicine, philology, logic, and philosophy). The term is particularly used to refer to Indian scholars +
Obscurations created by negative actions. +
A general epithet for a Buddha +
Six modes of existence caused and dominated by particular mental poisons: the hells(anger), and the realms of the pretas(miserliness), animals (bewilderment or ignorance), humans (desire), asuras (jealousy), and gods(pride). These correspond to deluded perceptions produced by beings' karma and apprehended as real +
Subtle veins in which the subtle energy (rlung; prana) circulates. The left and right principal channels run from the nostrils to just below the navel, where they join the central channel. +
The basis of all concentrations; a calm, undistracted state of unwavering concentration +
The third of the five paths; the stage at which a Bodhisattva in meditation gains a genuine experience of emptiness +
The three collections of the Buddha's teachings: Vinaya, Sutra, and Abhidharma. The Vajrayana teachings are sometimes considered as a fourth pitaka. +
“beyond suffering”: while this can be loosely understood as the goal of Buddhist practice, the opposite of samsara, it is important to realize that the term is understood differently by the different vehicles: the nirvana of the Basic Vehicle, the peace of cessation that an Arhat attains, is very different from a Buddha's nirvana, the state of perfect enlightenment that transcends both samsara and nirvana +
A mantra that has been blessed by a Buddha or Bodhisattva and has the power to help beings. Several of the sutras contain dharanis, often quite long +
freedom from samsara, either as an Arhat or as a Buddha; a practice performed by a fully realized being in order to liberate the consciousness of a malignant being into a Buddhafield +
Also modesty, consideration of others: to be ashamed because of what others might think if one commits negative actions. This is one of the seven noble riches +
(1) A spiritual teacher, explained as the contraction of bla na med pa (lit. “nothing superior”); (2) often used loosely for Buddhist monks or yogis in general +
This term designates a Buddha or wisdom deity, or sometimes a wealth deity or Dharma protector, as distinct from a nonenlightened god in the world of desire, the world of form, or the world of formlessness. +
