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A spiritual guide who is qualified to lead one in the practices of Vajrayāna. +
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One's own awareness, the sugatagarbha, which witnesses the displays of primordial consciousness. See CM 427-28, VS 591, VE 427-28. +
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A meditative practice established in Tibet and Bhutan by Padampa Sangyé's main disciple, Machik Lapdrön (1055-1149), in which one imaginatively offers up one's entire being as a means to realizing the empty nature of all phenomena, severing all clinging to the appearances of the three realms, and realizing that all gods and demons are none other than one's own appearances. See GD116-27, VE 153-60. +
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The meaning of ultimate reality. +
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A dark blue gemstone; it is astringent in taste, its post-digestive effects are cooling, and in terms of its healing effects, it benefits illnesses from poisoning, leprosy, lymph disorders, and skin disorders. Blue beryl may match this description, but this requires further research. +
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The teachings on direct crossing over describe six metaphoric "lamps," whose nature is luminosity: the three lamps of the vessel (the citta lamp of the flesh, the hollow crystal kati channel, and the fluid lasso lamp) and the three lamps of the vital essence (the lamp of the pristine space of awareness, the lamp of empty bindus, and the lamp of self-emergent wisdom). See CM 423-28, VS 591, VE 424-28. +
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The selflessness or lack of inherent identity of phenomena. There are two types: (1) the identitylessness ofpersons and (2) the identitylessness of phenomena. +
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Actions with such negative karmic force that upon death, the perpetrator is reborn immediately in hell, bypassing the intermediate period: matricide, patricide, killing an arhat, creating a schism in the Saṅgha, and maliciously drawing the blood of a tathāgata. +
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Lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. +
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Dharma protector. This may be a worldly being oath-bound to protect the Dharma and sentient beings ('jigtenpa) or a wisdom deity who is an enlightened manifestation of compassion (jig ten ha 'daspa). The chiefprotectress of the Dzokchen teachings is Ekajati. +
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An orb of light. The red and white essential drops of vital fluids within the body, included within the triad of channels, vital energies, and bindus. The dot or small circle above Tibetan and Sanskrit syllables such as Hūm. +
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Indian temple frieze ornamentation featuring a lattice (i.e., web or net) of looped garlands with pendants hung from the highest points. +
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Lit. "yoke," a meditative practice involving the mind and body. One of the six higher yānas of kriyāyoga, upāyayoga, yoga, mahāyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga. +
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The lineage of the Great Perfection, by which the symbolic signs of ultimate reality, the treasury of space, are spontaneously released, without reliance upon the stages ofspiritual training and practice. See VE z, GD 179. +
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A supernormal ability or achievement The supreme siddhi is the perfect enlightenment of a buddha, while the eight common siddhis include: (1) the siddhi of celestial realms, the ability to dwell in celestial realms while still alive; (i) the siddhi of the sword, the ability to overcome any hostile army; (3) the siddhi of medicinal pills, the ability to become invisible by holding blessing pills in your hand; (4) the siddhi of fleet-footedness, by which you can walk around a lake in an instant by wearing boots you have blessed; (5) the vase siddhi, by which you can create a vessel that renders inexhaustible anything you put inside it, food or money for example; (6) the siddhi of yakṣas, the power to make yakṣas your servants; (7) the siddhi of ambrosia (Skt.amṛta),which gives you a lifespan as long as the sun and the moon, the strength of an elephant, and the beauty of a lotus, and makes you feel as light as cotton wool whenever you arise from your seat; and (8) the siddhi of the balm of clairvoyance, which, when applied to your eyes, allows you to see things beneath the earth, such as treasures and so on. +
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An aggregate of spontaneously actualized facets of primordial consciousness and qualities of enlightenment, designated as a composite body. +
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The manifest state of the ground, which is self-emergent, naturally luminous, and free of outer and inner obscuration; this is indivisible from the all-pervasive, lucid, clear expanse of the absolute space of phenomena, free of contamination. +
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The quintessences of the five facets of primordial consciousness. +
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A type of preta. +
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This occur within seven days after the clear light of death arises, when the material elements of the body become smaller and smaller, until finally the material body dissolves into elementary particles, such that only the residues of one's hair and nails remain. +
