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Any person who directly and nonconceptually realizes emptiness. In a more general sense, Sangha refers to the communities of ordained monastics. It is sometimes used to refer to Buddhists in general. +
A type of meditation used to develop concentration. It involves training the mind to rest single-pointedly on its object of meditation. +
The meditation practice associated with a particular Buddha. This is often a written text that one follows, by chanting or reading, in order to meditate on that Buddha. +
The cessation of suffering and its causes. Freedom from cyclic existence. +
(Tib: bpyad sgom) A type of meditation used to discern and understand the main points of a meditation topic. This may involve thinking but eventually goes beyond conceptions. +
A negation that eliminates its object of negation but does not imply an affirmative phenomenon. +
A meditational deity, one of a number of Buddhas. +
A teaching of the Buddha; a Buddhist scripture. Sutras are found in all Buddhist traditions. +
A deep understanding that becomes part of us and changes our outlook on the world. When we realize love, for example, the way we feel about and relate to others changes dramatically. +
A person who, when seeing any sentient being, spontaneously feels the altruistic intention. +
The gradual path to enlightenment; the series of progressive topics upon which we meditate to gain deeper understanding and experience of the Buddha's teachings. +
The Buddhist tradition that asserts that all beings can attain enlightenment. It strongly emphasizes the development of compassion and the altruistic intention. +
A ritual cake made out of roasted barley flour that is offered to a meditational deity. +
The practices of ethics, meditative concentration, and wisdom. Practicing these three results in liberation. +
The attitude aspiring to be free from all problems and sufferings and to attain liberation. +
The wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes. +
The abodes of the first through the fourth meditative absorptions, which are located in the space above Mount Meru. The inhabitants of this realm have a body of light that is clear by nature. While they are free from passion, they still cling to form. [TD 2499] +
One of the four stakes that bind the life-force; explaining this practice, Tenpe Nyima writes, "For the stake of absorption, start out with the three absorptions and then meditate that the environment and its inhabitants are the divine maṇḍala - empty appearances like a rainbow. Finally, complete all the various aspects of the practice, including empowerment, sealing, and so on." [KR 57] +
The Mahāyoga teachings are traditionally divided into two groups, the Collected Tantras and the Collected Sādhanas. The latter is associated with a genre of literature known collectively as the Eight Great Sādhana Teachings. [NS 283] +
[Lit. "Unsurpassed Union Tantra"] - The fourth and highest of the four classes of Tantra. In the New Schools, this system consists of the Father Tantras, Mother Tantras, and Nondual Tantras. In the Nyingma School, this class of Tantra is equated with the three inner tantras: Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. Ju Mipham explains, "From the perspective of this approach, not only is the Causal Vehicle of the Perfections a 'long path,' but the Outer Tantras are as well. In other words, this is the true 'swift path,' the true 'Fruition Vehicle.' All other approaches are taught according to the mind-sets of disciples to lead them to this vehicle. Here, in contrast, the ultimate, definitive meaning is revealed explicitly, just as it is seen by the wisdom of the buddhas." [KG 37] +
