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The three fundamental types of suffering to which beings in saṃsāra are subject: the suffering of change, suffering upon suffering, and the suffering of everything composite (or all-pervading suffering in the making). +
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An epithet of the Buddha Śākyamuni, of ten 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, defilements, 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. +
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One of the three scriptural collections; the branch of the Buddha’s teachings that deals mainly with psychology and logic +
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Emptiness, absence of attributes, and absence of expectancy. +
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A collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha’s teachings are generally divided into three collections or baskets: Vinaya, Sūtra, and Abhidharma. +
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Teachings intended to lead unrealized beings toward the truth of the ultimate (or definitive) teachings. +
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One who has dispelled (Tib. ''sangs'') the darkness of the two obscurations and developed (Tib.''rgyas'') the two kinds of omniscience (knowing the nature of phenomena and knowing the multiplicity of phenomena). +
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In the context of Buddhist meditation and practice, a demon is any factor, on the physical or mental plane, that obstructs enlightenment. +
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The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom. +
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Asaṅga’s half-brother and disciple, famous in particular for his authorship of the classic text ''Treasury of Abhidharma'' (''Abhidharmakośa''). +
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A spiritual guide or teacher. +
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The first of the three worlds, comprising the hells, and the realms of the hungry spirits, animals, humans, demigods, and the six classes of gods of the world of desire. +
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The enlightenment of the listeners, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas. +
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Anything that transcends saṃsāra. The term “supramundane being” is generally applied to the noble beings of the Great Vehicle and Lesser Vehicle. +
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A synonym for liberation from saṃsāra. +
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The aspect of buddhahood that manifests out of compassion in all sorts of forms to help ordinary beings. +
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The first of the four results of the listeners’ path, one who has completed the listeners’ path of seeing. +
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Mirror like gnosis (''me long lta bu’i ye shes''), gnosis of equality (''mnyam pa nyid kyi ye shes''), all-discerning gnosis (''so sor kun tu rtog pa’i ye shes), and all-accomplishing gnosis (''bya ba grub pa’i ye shes''). +
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In the context of Buddhist literature, a work by an Indian or Tibetan master that comments on the Buddha’s teachings or presents them in condensed or more accessible form. +
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In the context of the Lesser Vehicle, a state of realization where one will no longer be reborn in the desire realm. It is the stage before the attainment of the level of arhat. In the context of the Great Vehicle, a bodhisattva nonreturner is one who cannot return to a samsaric state of mind, though they may still manifest in saṃsāra to benefit beings. +
