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From Buddha-Nature
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mos spyod kyi sa;stage of belief;stage of belief;The first two of the five paths common to both vehicles. On the path of accumulation and the path of preparation, the under standing of emptiness, or the nature of reality, is based upon solid reasoning, but it is not a direct cognition free of conceptuality. Therefore there remains an element of belief, but not in the sense of blind faith. +
gnad;vital points;vital points;Specific points within the body, usually at the very center of the cakras. In completion-stage practice these points are concentrated upon in order to bring the winds there for the purposes of withdrawing the mind, loosening the channel knots, and so on. +
bdud;māra;An obstruction to spiritual progress, sometimes personified as the tempter Māra. There are four types: the aggregates, mental afflictions, death, and ''devaputra''. The last, literally "son of the gods," is the personification of intoxication with desire-realm pleasures. +
close-to-attainment;close-to-attainment +
man ngag;core teachings;core teachings;Phabongkha (''Compilation of Notes, 64b3'') says that, generally, to think of "the core teachings of the lama" as merely oral teach ings passed on from one to another is not correct;rather you should think that explaining the entire doctrine according to the thought of the Buddha is a core teaching. In that sense, the works of Nāgārjuna and his disciples are core teachings. Often overlaps with "instructions" (''grams ngag''). +
phags pa;ārya;Generally, ''ārya'' refers to the levels (''bhūmi'') of attainment, or to those who have attained these levels, characterized by a direct and non conceptual understanding of the ultimate truth in meditation. Becoming an ārya, attaining the first of the ten levels, and reaching the path of seeing all happen simultaneously. Specifically, in this work the Ārya tradition is the Guhyasamāja tradition that primarily follows Ārya Nāgārjuna and his disciples. +
grub thob;siddha;An adept who has gained mastery over certain practices. +
pho ba;consciousness transference;consciousness transference;saṃkrāntī;The process of forcibly separating the consciousness, or primordial body, from the coarse body in order to take another life without going through the death and intermediate-state process. Also refers to the more commonly known practice of ensuring, with a lamas help, migration into a pure land at the time of death. +
bhaga;Sanskrit term, transliterated in Tibetan, referring to the female sexual organ. +
las kyi phyag rgya;karma consort;karma consort;karmamudrā;Flesh and blood consort. There are two explanations for the sense of ''karma'' as used in this term: that the consort is a woman whose form is produced by karma, and that ''karma'' here refers to the activity or function of the consort in creating great bliss. The term ''mudrā'' (seal) refers to the consorts ability to seal the yogi with great bliss. +
yan lag bzhi;four branches;four branches;A categorization of the developments on the paths of the generation and completion stages: Approach (''bsnyen''), close accomplishment (''dyer grub''), accomplishment (''shrub pa''), great accomplishment (''shrub chen''). Each set of four occurs on both stages. +
rang rgyal;pratyekabuddha;Non-Mahayana disciples of the Buddha who, unlike śrāvaka disciples, prefer to meditate on their own, leading some tenets to classify them as more intelligent than the śrāvakas. +
lus den;body isolation;body isolation;A completion-stage practice included in the first of the five stages in which the ordinary view of bodily constituents is replaced with a divine view in which these constituents appear as the play of bliss and emptiness in the form of deities. This is distinguished from generation-stage practice because this practice arises from the practice of dissolving the winds in the central channel. ''See also'' five stages. +
snyoms 'jugs;meditative union;meditative union;Refers to the union between deity and consort. +
rjes su dran pa;recollection;recollection;anusmṛti;The fifth of the six yogas that make up an alternative categorization of the completion stage. Recollection is included in the stage of union from the five stages. ''See also'' six-branch yoga. +
dagga nas 'gro;disappearing through purification;disappearing through purification;Often refers to the practice of a visualized deity form disappearing into emptiness or to the impure illusory body disappearing into the clear light. +
nor bu;vajra jewel;vajra jewel;yuganaddha;Euphemism for male sex organ, often just referred to as ''jewel''. +
yang dag mtha;limit of perfection;limit of perfection;In this work this term refers to the fourth- stage actual clear light. +
dhūtī;Central channel. ''See also'' channel. +
rim pa lnga;five stages;five stages;pañcakrama;A way of dividing the completion stage of tantra into substages.
:1. ''body and speech isolation'': When using the set of five, body isolation and speech isolation are grouped together. Speech isolation includes vajra repetition (''rod rje zlas pa'', ''vajrajāpa'') and prāṇāyāma (''srog rtsol'').
:2. ''mind isolation'':. Also known as ''focus on the mind'' (''seems la dmigs pa'')
:3. ''illusory body'': Also known as ''self-consecration'' (''bdag la byin brlabs'', ''svādhiṣṭhāna''), where "self" refers to the subtle wind imputed as self and "consecrate" means to transform (Phabongkha, ''Compilation of Notes'', 126)
:4. ''actual clear light'': Also known as ''mastery'' (''mngon par byang chub, abhisambodhi'').
:5. ''union'': Includes the practice and no-further-practice stages of union +
