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Lit. “inconceivable”: the first monastery in Tibet, in the Tsangpo Valley southeast of Lhasa, built during the time of King Trisong Detsen +
The method for accomplishing the level of a particular deity, for example, the lama, yidam, or dakini +
A fabulous jewel found in the realms of the gods or nagas that fulfills all one's wishes +
Five successive stages in the path to enlightenment: the paths of accumulating, joining, seeing, meditation, and the path beyond learning +
The ten conditions that enable one to hear and practice the Buddha's teachings. They are divided into five individual advantages and five circumstantial advantages +
A synonym for spiritual teacher +
An epithet of the Buddha Shakyamuni, often translated as “Mighty One.” He was called “capable” because, when he was a Bodhisattva and there was none who had the courage to tame the most unfortunate beings, with extremely gross views, afflictive emotions, and actions, he, our kind Teacher, was the only one, of all the 1,002 Buddhas of this Excellent Kalpa, who had the strength or capacity to vow to benefit them +
The body of form, which includes the sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya together +
The eight states of freedom from the eight unfavorable conditions, such freedom being essential in order to hear and practice the Buddha's teachings +
Faith, discipline, generosity, learning, a sense of decency, a sense of shame, and wisdom +
The first of the three worlds, comprising the hells, and the realms of the pretas, animals, humans, asuras, and the six classes of kamaloka gods (Four Great Kings, Heaven of the Thirty-three, Heaven Free of Conflict (Yama), The Joyous Realm (Tushita), Enjoying Magical Creations, and Mastery over Others' Creations) +
Although this term simply means “action,” it has come to be widely used to signify the result produced by past actions (Tib. las kyi 'bras bu), often with the implication of destiny or fate and of something beyond one's control. In the Buddhist teachings, the principle of karma covers the whole process of actions leading to results in future lives, which is something that is very definitely within one's control. +
The five psycho-physical components into which a person can be analyzed and which together produce the illusion of a self. They are form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors, and consciousness +
The five principal afflictive emotions: bewilderment, ignorance, or confusion (Tib. gti mug), (2) attachment or desire (Tib. 'dod chags), (3) aversion, hatred, or anger (Tib. zhe sdang), (4) jealousy (Tib. phra dog), and (5) pride (Tib. nga rgyal) +
The birthplace near Rajagriha of the Buddha's disciple Shariputra, which much later, starting in the time of the Gupta kings (fifth century), became one of the great centers of learning in Buddhist India. It was destroyed around A.D. 1200 +
a class of beings whose jealous nature spoils their enjoyment of their fortunate rebirth in the higher realms and involves them in constant conflict with the gods in the god realms +
The most terrible of the hells, also called the Hell of Torment Unsurpassed +
The ruler of the Heaven of the Thirty-three +
“the translated word”: the Tibetan translations of the original canonical works that recorded the Buddha's teachings of the Tripitaka and the tantras. The Kangyur comprises a collection of more than one hundred volumes +
“action, cause, and result”: the process by which every action inevitably produces a corresponding effect. +
