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TRIPLE GEM;triple gem;See Three Jewels +
chos;DHARMA;The Doctrine, or corpus of teachings given by the Buddha and other enlightened beings, which shows the path to Awakening. It has two aspects: the Dharma of transmission, namely the scriptures and teachings, and the Dharma of realization, the qualities re-sulting from the spiritual practice. +
rdo rje mal 'byor ma;VAJRAYOGINI;Female Sambhogakaya form of Buddha. +
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa;PRAJNAPARAMITA;Transcendent knowledge, direct realization of emptiness, and thus the Mother of all the Buddhas. Referred to also as wisdom that has gone beyond. +
tshogs;GANACHAKRA;feast or sacred feast. A ritual offering in tantric Buddhism in which food and drink are blessed as the elixir of wis-dom and offered to the yidam as well as to the deities of the mandala of one's own body. +
mtshams med Inga;SINS OF IMMEDIATE PERDITION;sins of immediate perdition;Five negative actions that are so grave that they provoke immediate descent into the lower realms after death. They are killing one's mother;killing one's father;killing an Arhat;with evil intention causing the blood of a Buddha to flow;and provoking a schism in the spiritual community. Whoever commits such an action is said to be reborn in the Hell of Torment Unsurpassed immediately after death, without even passing through the bardo state. +
lha;GOD;god;deva;A class of beings, superior to the human state, enjoying immense longevity, but not immortal. It is worth bearing in mind that in Sanskrit and Tibetan, deva and lha are technical terms commonly used to refer to the yidams and other deities in a mandala, the Buddha, the Guru, and any great figure such as a king. As Radhakrishnan points out, the term deva is associated with the act of giving, and there is no doubt a connection with this term and the words for giving in many Indo-European languages. The creator is termed deva because he "gives the universe," sun and moon are so called because they give light, the king because he gives protection, and the Buddha and the Guru because they give the Doctrine. The fact that gods or deities are often referred to in Tibetan Buddhism does not therefore imply that it is a species of polytheism. +
BODHISATTVA;One who through compassion strives to attain the full enlightenment of Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. Bodhisattvas may be "ordinary" or "noble" (sometimes referred to as mundane and transmundane respectively), depending on whether they have attained the Mahayana Path of Seeing and are residing on one of the ten Bodhisattva grounds. +
pad ma 'od;LOTUS LIGHT;lotus light;Name of the palace of Guru Padmasamb-hava in his pure land, the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain of Ngayab. +
phung po lnga;FIVE AGGREGATES;five aggregates;Body, feeling, perception, condi-tioning factors, and consciousness. These arc the constituting elements of the "personality." When they occur together, there arises the false impres-sion of a self existing separately as an independent entity. +
phyogs bcu;TEN DIRECTIONS;ten directions;The four cardinal directions together with the four intermediate directions, the zenith, and the nadir. TEN TRANSCENDENT VIRTUES. See Perfections +
ye shes;WISDOM,PRIMAL;wisdom,primal;Pure awareness, spontaneously present in the minds of beings from beginningless time. +
MON;mon;A Himalayan region corresponding more or less to modern Bhutan with the addition of certain contiguous regions in Tibet itself. +
MIRAGE-LIKE CONCENTRATION;mirage-like concentration;See threefold concentration +
HORPA;horpa;A central Asian race, probably the Uighurs, a nomadic people of Turkoman stock. +
CENTRAL CHANNEL;central channel;avadhuti;See avadhuti +
don yod grub pa;AMOGHASIDDHI;lit. Accomplishment of Purpose. The Buddha of the Activity Family, corresponding to all-accomplishing wisdom, which is the pure nature of the aggregate of conditioning factors and the affliction of jealousy. It is associated with the enlightened activity of forceful subjugation. +
snying thig;NYINGTIK;nyingtik;The innermost teachings of the pith-instruction section of Dzogpa Chenpo, or Great Perfection. OATH-BOUND. See dharmapala ODDIYANA. See Orgyen +
phyag rgya;MUDRA;Lit., a ritual gesture, sign, seal. There arc four types of mudra, which have numerous levels of meaning according to the context. +
mngos shes;CLAIRVOYANCE;clairvoyance;There are six kinds of clairvoyance or preternatural knowledge: for example, the knowledge of one's own and others' past existences. The sixth one is the knowledge of the exhaustion of karma and defilement. This is enjoyed by the Buddhas alone. +
