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Cognition based on deduction or logical reasoning; one of the two valid cognitions. +
One of the two main branches of the Madhyamaka school, which instead of using autonomous syllogisms to establish ultimate reality, principally employs the method ofusing illogicalities in the opponent’s thesis to demonstrate the ‘harmful’ or illogical consequences flowing from it +
Unique philosophical term introduced by Tsongkhapa, who maintains that the extinction of actions is a compounded phenomenon. +
This term is used only in the Mahāyāna teachings. This obscuration is regarded as a barrier to attaining omniscience. +
The state immediately following any direct, transcendent experience of voidness, called "actual realization state." During the actual realization state the perception of the apparent world yields to the perception of its voidness, while in the post-attainment state the preconceived perception of the apparent world returns subtly altered by the preceding experience. +
A feast of offering attended by the host of ḍakiṇīs ([[sic]]) +
Small cakes of barley flour or other similar substances used as offerings +
Reality as it appears to a common individual whose conditioned, distorted perception experiences reality in the form of discrete, independent identities. Synonym: illusory world, superficial reality. +
The lowest, most intense of the hells. +
The eighth consciousness, according to the Mind-Only system developed by Asaṅga in the fifth century. It is the basic substratum of the individual's consciousness that carries the imprintings of "seeds" of past and future experiences. +
In gnostic wisdom, the perception free from the preconceptual conditionings that "create" the discrete, independent identities of the apparent world. +
Mental functions that are obstructive to the quiescence of nirvana. There are six primary afflictions: ignorance, desire, aversion, doubt, pride, and wrong views; and a number of subsidiary afflictions associated with their occurrence. +
The mental traces of past experience and action that give rise to the present samsaric situation. +
The sharing with others of one's virtuous actions, successful practice, and attainment. It consists of prayer, visualization, and attitude that should close each practice session, and also includes the dedication customarily given by yogis in return for food. +
he symbolic, graphic representation of a tantric deity's realm of existence. Also, the arrangement of offerings in tantric ritual (''pūjā''). +
Scriptures of Shakyamuni and other buddhas relating to tantric, or esoteric, practice. +
Nourishment during meditative states derived from concentrative absorption. It can sustain the yogi in place of food for periods of time. +
The original spoken scriptures of Shakyamuni Buddha. They are divided into three divisions or "baskets" (''piṭaka''): instruction and philosophy (''sūtra''), mental science (''abhidharma''), and discipline (''vinaya''). +
The intent to attain one's own enlightenment in order to help liberate others. It is not the state of enlightenment itself, but the selfless drive to attain it for the sake of others. In the Great Vehicle it is the necessary complement to the penetrating insight into voidness and in the Tantric Vehicle the prerequisite to real practice. +
The foci of the flow of current (''prāṇa'') in the psychophysiological system of tantric yoga. They are located at the head, throat, heart, and navel. +
