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“Great Seal”: the Great Seal means that the seal of the absolute nature is on everything, that all phenomena belong to the wisdom mandala. The term is used to denote the teaching, the meditation practice, or the supreme accomplishment +
One of the two foremost Shravaka disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni +
One of the schools of the New Tradition, founded by Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) +
The aggregates and elements, ayatanas (the sense organs and their corresponding sense objects), and limbs of one's body, whose true nature, according to the pure perception of the Mantrayana, is the mandala of the male and female Tathagatas, the male and female Bodhisattvas, and other deities +
Purification (byang) of all obscurations and realization (chub) of all qualities +
The last five of the ten advantages: (1) a Buddha has appeared in the world in which one is, (2) he has taught the doctrine, (3) his teaching has endured until now, (4) there are spiritual friends who can teach it, and (5) one has been accepted as a disciple by such a teacher +
Also means “to have a belief”: thus “ego clinging” can also be interpreted as “believing in an ‘I'.” +
The highest of the three inner yogas, the summit of the nine vehicles according to the classification of the Nyingmapa School +
Sugar, molasses, and honey +
The first of the three higher yogas according to the classification of the Dharma into nine vehicles. In this yoga, the main stress is put on the generation phase (bskyed rim) +
“drop”: the essence or seed of the great bliss; in the channels there are different kinds, pure or degenerate. The term thig le has a number of different meanings according to the context and type of practice +
A class of beings who, as a result of accumulating positive actions in previous lives, experience immense happiness and comfort, and are therefore considered by non-Buddhists as the ideal state to which they should aspire. Those in the worlds of form and formlessness experience an extended form of the meditation they practiced (without the aim of achieving liberation from samsara) in their previous life. Gods like Indra in the world of desire have, as a result of their merit, a certain power to affect the lives of other beings, and they are therefore worshipped, for example, by Hindus. The same Tibetan and Sanskrit term is also used to refer to enlightened beings, in which case it is more usually translated as “deity.” +
The first two of the five paths that prepare the Bodhisattva for attaining the path of seeing +
The means for traveling the path to enlightenment +
“one who has gone to bliss”: an epithet of a Buddha +
A teaching on emptiness first expounded by Nagarjuna and considered to be the basis of the Secret Mantrayana. “Middle” in this context means that it is beyond the extreme points of view of nihilism and eternalism. +
(790-844). The thirty-eighth king of Tibet, second of the three great religious kings. It was due to his efforts that the great masters came from India and established Buddhism firmly in Tibet +
The prominence on the head of a Buddha, one of the thirty-two major marks +
The first of the four empowerments. Receiving this empowerment purifies the defilements of the body, enables one to meditate on the generation phase, and sows the seed for obtaining the vajra body and the nirmanakaya +
The three afflictive emotions of bewilderment, attachment, and aversion. +
