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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. +
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Factors that veil one’s buddha nature, maintaining one in cyclic existence and preventing one from attaining enlightenment. See also two obscurations. +
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lit. “beyond suffering” or “the transcendence of misery.” While this can be loosely understood as the goal of Buddhist practice, the opposite of saṃsāra or cyclic existence, it is important to realize that the term is understood differently by the different vehicles. The nirvāṇa of the Lesser Vehicle, the peace of cessation that an arhat attains, is very different from a buddha’s “nondwelling” nirvāṇa, the state of perfect enlightenment that transcends both saṃsara and nirvāṇa. +
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The third of the five paths, the stage at which a bodhisattva in medication gains a genuine experience of emptiness and attains the first of the ten levels. +
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The state of nondual wisdom that, while transcending the subject-object duality, knows itself. +
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lit. “one who has gone to bliss.” An epithet of a buddha. +
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See bodhisattva levels. +
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The lasting happiness of liberation and omniscience, i.e., buddhahood. +
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Also called definitive teachings. Teachings that, unlike the expedient teachings, comprise the direct expression of truth from the point of view of realized beings. +
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The second of the five paths. On this path one connects oneself to or prepares oneself for seeing the two kinds of no-self on the path of seeing. +
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The fourth of the five paths, during which a bodhisattva traverses the remaining nine of the ten levels. +
