Property:Gloss-term
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mi g.yo ba;unmoving;unmoving;The ability to hold the elemental bodhicitta drops at points within the central channel and the resulting bliss. +
rim min phyi rkang;regressive later steps;regressive later steps;When, for example, the sun moves through Aries, Taurus, and Gemini—the last three houses of its northernjourney. +
phreng 'dzin pa'i tshig bcad;sragdhara;The “garland meter” of the Condensed Tantra, with twenty-one Sanskrit syllables per line. step index (''rkang’dzin''). Measurement index of a planet’s position;set at zero on the equinox. +
bde ba;bliss;bliss;sukha;Kālacakra literature mentions different kinds of bliss. They are not mutually exclusive. All are connected with the movements ofthe white elemental bodhicitta, or seminal fluid. Innate bliss is the bliss of withholding the fluid from emission, and is found throughout the completion stage. It is also the term used in tantras other than Kālacakra. Great innate bliss is used as a synonym for unchanging bliss. Falling bliss is the bliss of emission. Nonmoving bliss is the bliss generated from holding the elemental drops at points within the vajra body. In changing bliss, “changing” ('gyur ba) means emission (Jé Tsongkhapa, Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, p. 559), and therefore changing bliss is synonymous with falling bliss. However generation of changing bliss does not always mean emission of seminal fluid. Definitive unchanging bliss is first generated on the sixth branch, meditative concentration. Therefore bliss generated on the preceding branches, during which emission is prevented, has to be changing bliss, even though there is no emission. Alternatively bliss developed on the first flve branches is also called unchanging bliss or nonchanging bliss because emission is prevented, but it is not the definitive unchanging bliss. This is because a genuine unchanging bliss refers to the transformation of the material body by that bliss, which only begins on the sixth branch. +
dbang po’i mngon sum gyi tshad ma;sensory direct valid cognition;sensory direct valid cognition +
don dam pa;ultimate;ultimate +
Central channel;central channel;dhūtī +
rim pa snga rkang;progressive early steps;progressive early steps;When the sun, for example,moves through Cancer, Leo, and Virgo—the first three houses of its southernjourney +
dus sbyor;lagna;Fixed or tied down;the ascendant;a particular time or period of time determined or fixed by stellar and planetary events. Alagnaoccurs whenever the sun enters a constellation of the zodiac, and so the sun has twelve lagna in a year. In a single day a new lagna occurs approximately every two hours, whenever a new constellation appears on the horizon. +
gzhi dus;ordinary state or existence;ordinary state or existence;The ordinary or normal condition of sentient beings, especially with regard to the vajra body, before they enterthe tantric paths. +
ye shes;gnosis;gnosis;jñāna;In tantra gnosis is a primordial phenomenon of the vajra body, usually dwelling within the subtle drop at the heart cakra, andoften identified as the primordial mind of clear light. Gnosis is crucial to tantra’s total reliance on the human body as possessor of the perfect equipment, in the form of channels, winds, and drops, for the attainment of enlightenment. +
rim pa phyi rkang;progressive later steps;progressive later steps;When, for example, the sun moves through Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius—the last three houses of itssouthern journey. +
nyin mtshan mnyam pa;equinox;equinox;The time of equal day and night when the mean sun enters the constellation of Aries. This Kālacakra tenet ends weight tothe argument that the Kālacakra calendar and zodiac is solar and not lunar. +
gnad du bsnun pa;penetrative focusing;penetrative focusing;The completion-stage practice of meditatively focusing the mind at certain crucial sites along the centralchannel in order to manipulate the winds +
'od gsal;clear-light mind;clear-light mind;prabhāsvara;The subtle and primordial state of mind, everpresent in all sentient beings, manifested naturally at death andintentionally in the completion stage, where it is used as a subtle consciousness to focus on emptiness. +
rjes su snag;anuṣtubh;Sanskrit verse meter with eight syllables per line, four lines per verse;the meter of the 12,000-verse Root Tantra +
nyin zhag;solar day;solar day;Usually sunrise to sunrise. +
yon tan and 'phel ba;guṇa and vṛddhi;Secondary quality and increment. These refer to grades of vowel strength. For example, guṇa increases the vowel ito e, and vṛddhi increases it to ai. +
Central channel;central channel;avadhūtī;Central channel. +
rgyu skar;lunar mansion;lunar mansion;nakṣatra;The zodiac divided into twenty-seven constellations +
