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''See'' appearance, increase, and attainment. +
The thirty-seven factors of enlightenment are qualities that occur at various stages of the Buddhist path. According to Maitreya's ''Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes'', these are: 1) the four applications of mindfulness that occur on the lesser path of accumulation, 2) the four authentic eliminations that occur on the intermediate path of accumulation, 3) the four bases of miraculous power that occur on the greater path of accumulation, 4) the five faculties that occur during the first two stages of the path of joining - the stages of heat and summit, 5) the five powers that occur on the last two stages of the path of joining - the stage of acceptance and the supreme state, 6) the seven aspects of enlightenment that occur on the path of seeing, and 7) the eightfold noble path that occurs on the path of cultivation. [MV 732] These factors are often represented symbolically in development stage practice. The associations between these factors and their visualized counterparts are discussed by Longchenpa in SC, pp. 84-86. +
Yoga Tantra is the last of the three outer tantras. In this system, emphasis is placed on the internal process of meditative absorption. In terms of the path, there are two forms of practice: the practice of skillful means and the practice of knowledge. In the first, one practices deity yoga in conjunction with the four seals. In the latter, one realizes the inner reality of the mind and actualizes discerning wisdom. To supplement this internal process, external forms of ritual purification are also practiced. [SG 335] +
This appellation is applied most commonly to the Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug traditions. More specifically, it refers to those who uphold the Secret Mantra tantras that were brought to Tibet in the period that began with the work of the great translator Rinchen Zangpo. [TD 3008] ''See also'' Nyingma School. +
A protective barrier, formed of a vajra mesh, that is erected in all directions prior to practicing a maṇḍala, making offerings, giving an empowerment, and so forth. [TD 2983] +
1) generosity, 2) discipline, 3) patience, 4) diligence, 5) meditative absorption, 6) knowledge, 7) skillful means, 8) strength, 9) aspiration, and 10) wisdom. [TD 1698] +
The nirmāṇakāya and the sambhogakāya, which appear to those in need of guidance once the accumulation of merit has been perfected. [TD 2499] +
There are four factors that subsume all aspects of development stage practice. Jamgön Kongtrül explains, "To engage in development stage practice, one needs to have at least some understanding of four factors: the basis, object, and process and result of purification ... The result of purification is the actualization of the deity, which abides in the ground. This fruition, once the process of release has reached its culmination, is referred to as the 'attainment of the state of vajradhara.'" [ND 13-14] +
One of the four stakes that bind the life-force; Tenpe Nyima explains, "For the stake of the essence mantra, focus your mind on the heart center of the wisdom being, where the absorption being - the heart essence [syllable or implement] - is encircled by a garland of mantras. Then recite the mantra." [KR 57] +
Bone ornaments are symbolic ornamentation worn by certain yidam deities. Depending on the context, there are said to be either five or six types of bone ornament. The first group is presented in the ''Husks of Unity'' by Getse Mahāpaṇḍita. The sixfold grouping consists of bone jewels, bone lotuses, bone vajras, bone cakras, a bone eternal knot, and a bone double vajra. [TN 86] +
One of the five kāyas; when classified into two forms, the state of buddhahood is divided into dharmakāya and rūpakāya (the form of reality and the embodied form). Dharmakāya is the actualization of what, for one's own benefit, results from the culmination of abandonment and realization. [TD 829] Explaining further, Padmasambhava writes, "The dharmakāya is the unfabricated innate nature - a profound naturalness, beyond arising and ceasing and devoid of constructs." [DE 190] +
'See' devoted training and definitive perfection. +
[Lit. "Horse Neck"] - Hayagrīva is a wrathful divinity of the lotus family and one of the yidam deities in the Eight Great Sādhana Teachings. +
The teachings of the Nyingma School have been transmitted through two lineages, the distant lineage of the Transmitted Teachings and the close lineage of the treasures. In the latter, the teachings that are passed on consist of three primary categories: those that relate to Guru Padmasambhava, the Great Perfection, and the Great Compassionate One, Avalokiteśvara. [NS 396] +
1) generosity, 2) discipline, 3) patience, 4) diligence, 5) meditative absorption, and 6) knowledge. [TD 1698] +
Three great masters of the Nyingma School that form the source of the lineage of the Transmitted Teachings of the Nyingma School, the Secret Mantra of the Nyingma School of the Early Translations; the names of these three masters are ''So'' Yeshe Wangchuk, ''Zur'' Shakya Jungne, and ''Nup'' Chen Sangye Yeshe. [TD 2957] +
Energy is one element of the triad energies, channels, and essences. This factor has the nature of the five elements and completely pervades the energetic channels. [TD 2734] There are ten forms of energy: the five root energies (the life-force energy, the downwards-expelling energy, the fire-accompanying energy, the upwards-moving energy, and the pervading energy) and five subsidiary energies (the nāga-energy, the tortoise-energy, the chameleon-energy, the devadatta-energy, and the fire-energy). [JG 50] +
The moment of death provides one of the most potent opportunities for liberation, according to the Buddhist teachings, because the dharmakāya dawns nakedly at this point and has only to be recognized for liberation to occur. Tsele Natsok Rangdröl explains, "After all the previously mentioned dissolution phases are finished, the energeticmind will dissolve between the white and red pure essences, the A and HANG, union of means and knowledge. Because of this coincidence, the dharmakāya of primordial luminosity, the noncomplex, unfabricated, coemergent wisdom of great bliss, will definitely manifest." This experience is referred to by various terms, depending on the system, but, he explains, "The general teachings common to all systems know it as the luminosity of the first bardo." [MM 45] ''See also'' death and three appearances. +
A yidam deity associated with the principle of enlightened activity from the Eight Great Sādhana Teachings. +
