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Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering +
The Buddha to come, the fifth in this present kalpa. He is one of the eight principal Bodhisattva disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni +
(eleventh-twelfth century) An Indian siddha who established the teachings of the Shijepa (Tib. zhi byed pa) School. Teacher of Machik Labdrön, to whom he transmitted the Chö teachings. He travelled to Tibet several times +
“individual liberation”: the collective term for the different forms of Buddhist ordination and their respective vows, as laid down in the Vinaya +
The accumulation of merit (Tib. bsod nams) and the accumulation of wisdom (Tib. ye shes) +
“The Joyous”: one of the realms of the gods in the world of desire, in which Buddha Shakyamuni took a final rebirth before appearing in this world. The future Buddha, Maitreya, is currently in the Tushita Heaven teaching the Mahayana +
“wheel”: and therefore also translated as “cyclic existence”; the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as a result of their actions and afflictive emotions +
An act of veneration that consists of walking clockwise, concentratedly and with awareness, around a sacred object, e.g., a temple, stupa, or holy mountain, or the residence, and even the person, of a spiritual master +
The followers of the first teachings of the Secret Mantrayana propagated in Tibet by the great masters Vimalamitra and Padmasambhava in the eighth century +
(1) A scripture containing the teachings of the Buddha; (2) the Sutrapitaka (mdo sde), the one of the Three Pitakas that deals with meditation +
“lesser vehicle” (in relation to the Mahayana or Great Vehicle): the vehicle of the Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas +
The most famous disciple of Nagarjuna, whose teaching he commented upon in several treatises on Madhyamika philosophy (second century) +
The three vehicles of the Sutrayana (those of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas) and the six vehicles of the Vajrayana (Kriyatantra, Upatantra, Yogatantra, Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga) +
One of the six realms, in which one undergoes great suffering, mainly in the form of intense heat or cold. Beings in the hell realm mostly experience the effects of actions rather than creating new causes +
Five aspects of the wisdom of Buddhahood: the wisdom of the absolute space (Tib. chos dbyings kyi ye shes), mirrorlike wisdom (Tib. me long gi ye shes), the wisdom of equality (Tib. mnyam nyid kyi ye shes), discriminating wisdom (Tib. so sor rtog pa'i ye shes), and all-accomplishing wisdom (Tib. bya ba grub pa'i ye shes) +
The concepts of subject, object, and action that prevent one from attaining omniscience +
The community of Buddhist practitioners +
Eight circumstances that prevent one from practicing the Dharma and thus making effective use of a precious human body: to be (1) overwhelmed by the five poisons, (2) extremely stupid, (3) to have a false teacher who has wrong views, (4) to be lazy, (5) to be overwhelmed by the results of one's previous bad karma, (6) to be someone's servant and thus lack the autonomy to practice, (7) to follow the Dharma merely in order to be fed, clothed, and to avoid other difficulties in life, and (8) to take up the Dharma only in order to win wealth and prestige +
Eight propensities that prevent one from practicing the Dharma and thus making effective use of a precious human body: (1) excessive attachment to family, worldly commitments, success, and so forth, (2) a basically bad character, (3) a lack of fear or dissatisfaction with regard to the sufferings of samsara, (4) a complete absence of faith, (5) a propensity for harmful or negative actions, (6) a lack of interest in the Dharma, (7) the fact of having broken one's vows, and (8) the fact of having broken the Vajrayana samayas +
Produced (byas) by a combination ('dus) of causes and conditions +
