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scriptural sources that are the basis of the mahayoga teachings (''see'' mahayoga) +
the fundamentally uncontrived nature of being; the Great Perfection teachings state that this ground is already endowed with all positive qualities of enlightened being, perfect and complete without having to be sought or brought into being deliberately; the process of the spiritual path is one of making the ground evident as the fruition, rather than fundamentally altering it in any way [basis (BM); Being (FRC); ground-basis (NJ, PC); base, foundation (SL)] +
a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
literally, "Utterly Perfect and Complete Activity"; pure realm associated with the buddha Amoghasiddhi and the northern direction +
the first of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school; an approach employing ascetic practices and ritual purity +
literally, "city of the gandharvas"; a mirage occurring at sunset under certain atmospheric conditions, when the sky seems filled with ethereal shapes of palaces and great cities +
literally, "Vajra in Hand"; the bodhisattva embodying the spiritual power of all buddhas and bodhisattvas +
the principles to which a practitioner is personally committed in vajrayana practice +
the greatest scholar of the Nyingma school, who lived from 1308 to 1364 +
wrathful feminine protective deity; the main protector of the Great Perfection teachings +
the dualistic conception of object and subject +
literally, "awakened mind"; denotes the "refining away" (''jang'') of all flaws and distortions; consummate "mastery" (''chhub'') of all qualities of the kayas, pristine awareness, the path and the goal; and "mind" (''sem'') as the ground for the arising of everything in equal purity [heart of enlightened essence (DZP); thrust/intent toward pellucidity and consummation of the whole cognitive domain (FRC); inner potential for limpid clearness and consummate perspicacity (KB); mind of enlightenment (NGP); (primordial) state of pure and total presence (PE); Primordial State of the individual (SL)] +
denotes the ground of being as the essential nature of all samsara and nirvana, and the one taste of everything in that nature +
literally, "Endowed with Glory"; the pure realm associated with the buddha Ratnasambhava and the southern direction +
a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
one of the five basic emotional "poisons" that obscure the true nature of mind +
specifically the sphere of intrinsic awareness abiding as the distilled essence of all phenomena [the heart of (BM); evolutionary dynamics, thrust toward it(self), the total system's energy (FRC); embryo (GL); nucleus (NS); energy pulse, core (PE); heart essence (PT); heart/essence (VH)] +
emptiness as the dharmakaya aspect of the nature of mind [essence (BM, DZP, GL, PC, PT, VH); (open-ended) facticity (of Being) (KB, FRC); nature (MW); what it comes down to, at bottom, in fact (PE)] +
one of the seven vajra attributes of space and the true nature of being +
the fourth of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school; the approach in which all phenomena are viewed as the inseparability of the two levels of truth, pure from the very beginning in supreme dharmakaya +
