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“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. +
“smell eater”: a spirit that feeds on smells. Also used for a being in the intermediate state who inhabits a mental body and therefore feeds not on solid food but on odors +
Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom +
“wind,” being described as “light and mobile”: any one of a number of subtle energies that regulate the functions of the body and influence the mind, which is said to ride or be carried on the rlung like a rider on a horse. Mastery of these subtle energies in the perfection phase greatly enhances the practitioner's realization. +
Perfection means that the mind, in its nature, naturally contains all the qualities of the three bodies: its nature is emptiness, the dharmakaya; its natural expression is clarity, the sambhogakaya; and its compassion is all-encompassing, the nirmanakaya. Great means that this perfection is the natural condition of all things +
The Buddha's doctrine; the teachings transmitted in the scriptures and the qualities of realization attained through their practice. Note that the Sanskrit word dharma has ten principal meanings, including “anything that can be known.” Vasubandhu defines the Dharma, in its Buddhist sense, as the “protective dharma” (chos skyobs): “It corrects ('chos) every one of the enemies, the afflictive emotions; and it protects (skyobs) us from the lower realms: these two characteristics are absent from other spiritual traditions.” +
“support of offering”: a symbolic representation of the Buddha's mind. The most typical Buddhist monument, which often has a wide square base, a rounded midsection, and a tall conical upper section topped by a sun and a moon. Stupas frequently contain the relics of enlightened beings. They vary in size from tiny clay models to the vast stupas at Borobodur in Indonesia and Baudha in Nepal +
A tenth-level Bodhisattva, one of Buddha Shakyamuni's eight principal Bodhisattva disciples. He embodies the knowledge and wisdom of all the Buddhas and is usually depicted holding the sword of wisdom in his right hand and a book on a lotus in his left +
In the context of Buddhist meditation and practice, a demon is any factor, on the physical or mental plane, that obstructs enlightenment. +
Also sameness, equality: all things equally have the nature of emptiness +
Unlimited love (Tib. byams pa), compassion (Tib. snying rje), joy (Tib. dga' ba), and equanimity (Tib. btang snyoms) +
