Property:Gloss-def
From Buddha-Nature
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display [play (BM, FRC, NJ, PC); manifestation (GL); playfulness (KB); excitement (PE)] +
literally, "(one) gone to suchness"; an epithet for a buddha, often Shakyamuni Buddha +
the union of the essential emptiness of the nature of mind and its inherent lucidity [compassion (BM, DZP, NJ, PC, VH, WPT); energy (DZP, MW, SL); resonance (of Being) (FRC); responsiveness (KB); greatness of mind (PT); capacity (RP)] +
conduct, in the sense of how one's view and meditation carry over into and influence daily activities [behavior, action (GL)] +
literally, "Manifest Joy"; the pure realm associated with the buddha Akshobhya and the eastern direction +
literally, "unique bindu, or sphere (of being)," unique in the sense that samsara and nirvana are of one taste in bodhicitta; the fourth of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati [single circle (cs)] +
the lucidity of mind that accounts for the realization and manifestation of sambhogakaya [nature (BM, DZP, GL, PT, SL, VH); actuality (of Being) (FRC, KB); natural (NJ, PC); natural expression (NS, WPT); actuality, essence (PE)] +
one of the seven vajra attributes of space and the true nature of being +
immeasurable mansion (of a deity); denotes the fact that the positive qualities of the ground of being cannot be measured and completely fill the whole of samsara and nirvana +
habitual patterns; patterns established by physical, verbal or mental actions carrying over from lifetime to lifetime [habitual tendencies (cs); unconscious propensities (GL); ingrained tendencies, sedimented (KB); instinct (MW); habitual propensities (NJ); karmic traces (SL)] +
the sixth of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school, also known as the Great Perfection approach (''see'' Dzogchen), within which are subsumed the meanings of the eight lower approaches (''see t'heg-pa rim-pa gu''). The great perfection is the nature of reality—the ground of being and its manifest aspect—spontaneously present and self-arising [yoga of the innermost essence (MW)] +
literally, "absence of ultimate defining characteristics"; one of the three "doorways to liberation" (''see t'har-pai go''); refers to the fact that buddha nature is free of characterization, comparison or demonstration [absence of characteristics (NJ, PC); attributelessness (NS); signlessness (HTV)] +
subtle energy of karma, resulting in discursive thought patterns +
the category of direct transmission instructions; the third of three categories of teachings in atiyoga, or Great Perfection +
discriminating pristine awareness; one of the five aspects of pristine awareness (''see ye-shey nga''); the unceasing avenue for the expression of the lucidity of mind that knows the inherent nature of things and perceives them in their variety [discriminative primordial wisdom (BM); All-encompassing Investigating Awareness (MK); pristine wisdom of discernment (MW); discerning timeless awareness (PPTC); discriminating awareness-wisdom (RW); discerning wisdom (SGK); discriminating wisdom (WPT)] +
skillful means as the element in spiritual development that corresponds to the level of relative reality, associated with the gaining of merit +
meditation in which the mind rests naturally [contemplation (BM, MW, PE, SL); meditative concentration (DZP, VH); meditative stabilization (ME, NJ, PC)] +
a great vajrayana master and siddha of Indian Buddhism; Dudjom Lingpa was an emanation of Saraha +
manifestation [appearances (cs, NJ, PC); display (cs); coming-into-presence (FRC); thereness, (self-)presentation, reflective-thematic (KB); how things appear, presence (PE); sensory appearances (PT); perceptions (WPT)] +
the schema of nine yanas, or spiritual approaches, elaborated in the teachings of the Nyingma school; the three paths of the shravaka, pratyekabuddha and bodhisattva, and the six levels of tantra—kriyatantra, upatantra, yogatantra, mahayoga, anuyoga and atiyoga; the eight lower approaches are subsumed within the ninth yana of atiyoga, or Great Perfection +
