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“body of manifestation”: the aspect of Buddhahood that manifests out of compassion to help ordinary beings +
“transfer of power”: the authorization to hear, study, and practice the teachings of the Vajrayana; this takes place in a ceremony which may be extremely elaborate or utterly simple +
The Tibetan name for Avalokiteshvara +
The traditional preparation a practitioner needs to complete before the main practice of the Mantrayana. It comprises five principal sections—refuge, bodhichitta, purification (meditation on Vajrasattva), offering of the mandala, and guru yoga—each performed one hundred thousand times +
Rebirth as a human being free from the eight unfavorable conditions and possessing the ten advantages. This is the only situation in which it is possible to hear and practice the Buddha's teachings properly. According to the Omniscient Longchenpa, the precious human body requires sixteeen further conditions in order to be fully effective, namely freedom from the eight intrusive circumstances and eight incompatible propensities +
“basket”: a collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha's teachings are generally divided into three pitakas: Vinaya, Sutra, and Abhidharma +
“pure”: the name given to the principal god in the world of form +
Students of the same teacher, or with whom one has received Vajrayana teachings. +
Lit. “one who has vanquished the enemy” (the enemy in this case being afflictive emotions): a practitioner of the Basic Vehicle who has attained the cessation of suffering, i.e., nirvana, but not the Perfect Buddhahood of the Great Vehicle +
“body of perfect enjoyment”: the spontaneously-luminous aspect of Buddhahood, only perceptible to highly realized beings +
Also called the Diamond Vehicle or Adamantine Vehicle. +
The ultimate nature of the mind and the true status of phenomena, which can only be known by primal wisdom, beyond all conceptual constructs and duality +
The eight conditions in which sentient beings lack the opportunity to hear and practice the Buddha's teachings. These are: to be born (1) in the hells, (2) as a preta, (3) as an animal, or (4) as a long-lived god; or as human being but (5) in a world where no Buddha has appeared, or (6) in a barbaric region where the Buddha's doctrine is unknown, or (7) as someone holding wrong views, or (8) as someone mute or mentally deficient +
The consciousnesses related to vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mentation +
The three fundamental types of suffering to which beings in samsara are subject: the suffering of change, suffering upon suffering, and the suffering of everything composite (or all-pervading suffering in the making) +
The Lotus-born Teacher from Oddiyana, often known as Guru Rinpoche. During the reign of King Trisong Detsen, the great master subjugated the evil forces hostile to the propagation of Buddhism in Tibet, spread the Buddhist teaching of Vajrayana in that country, and hid innumerable spiritual treasures for the benefit of future generations. He is venerated as the Second Buddha, whose coming was predicted by the first one, Buddha Shakyamuni, to give the special teachings of Vajrayana +
A great Indian master who expounded the teachings of the Middle Way and composed numerous philosophical and medical treatises +
The Buddha who embodies the forty-two peaceful and fifty-eight wrathful deities. The practice of Vajrasattva and recitation of his mantra are particularly effective for purifying negative actions. In the lineage of the Great Perfection he is the Sambhogakaya Buddha +
One of the Four Great Kings (whose god realm is the first in the world of desire); guardian of the North and god of wealth +
The vehicle of the Bodhisattvas, referred to as “great” because it aims at full Buddhahood for the sake of all beings +
