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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. +
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Three aspects, as presented by the Yogācāra school, of the nature of phenomena: the imputed nature, the dependent nature, and the fully present nature. Also called three realities. +
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A fault due to the transgression of a rule (monastic or otherwise). +
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The three aspects of buddhahood: the body of truth, body of perfect enjoyment, and body of manifestation. +
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Nondual wisdom whose object is itself +
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Also called the four seals. “All that is compounded is impermanent. All that is tainted is suffering. All phenomena are devoid of self. Nirvāṇa is peace.” +
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“Land of the Jambu Tree.” The southern continent in the ancient Indian cosmology, the world in which we live. +
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The incorrect mental processes that lead to the imputations of subject and object and of intrinsic existence. +
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lit. “union (''’byor'') with the natural state (''rnal ma'').” A term for spiritual practice. +
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The truth of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of cessation, and the truth of the path. These constitute the foundation of Buddha Śākyamuni’s doctrine, the first teaching that he gave (at Sarnath near Varanasi) after attaining enlightenment. +
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Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom, together with transcendent means, aspirational prayer, strength, and gnosis. Each of these ten is practiced predominantly on one of the ten bodhisattva levels—generosity on the first level, discipline on the second, and so forth. They are termed “transcendent” because their practice involves realization ofthe view of emptiness. +
