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Usually, the intermediate state that follows death and is prior to one's next rebirth. More generally, any of the six transitional phases of living, dreaming, meditation, dying, ultimate reality, and becoming.  +
Lit "obstructor," a being among the eighty thousand types of demons that obstruct the path to liberation; they are actually mere projections of thoughts of ego-grasping, craving, and attachment. vigraba (Skt., Tib. gongpo). A demonic force, or being, that arises as a projection of hatred.  +
The afflictive and cognitive obscurations, which prevent one from seeing the nature of reality and from achieving the omniscience of a buddha, respectively.  +
The "extraordinary yoga," which is equivalent to the Great Perfection, or Dzokchen, the pinnacle of the nine spiritual vehicles.  +
Once coarse mindfulness has subsided, resting in a luminous vacuity, or the substrate consciousness.  +
A matrix of meditative practices designed to purify the mind, accumulate merit, and bring enlightenment  +
The syllables Oṃ, Āḥ, and Hūṃ. The "clear-light vajra essence" is one of seven synonyms for the Great Perfection. See GD 286,  +
Detached, unimpeded primordial consciousness of all phenomena in the past, present, and future.  +
A seal or imprint, such as a ruler's insignia on a decree. A gesture symbolizing some form of enlightened activity. In tantra, the female consort of a male deity.  +
Effulgences or manifestations, such as the creative displays of primordial consciousness.  +
A vacuous, immaterial, nonconceptual state experienced in deep, dreamless sleep, when one faints, and when one thes, and in which appearances to the mind are impeded.  +
Transference of consciousness. According to the Great Perfection, the unsurpassed transference is the realization of the pristine domain of the absolute space of phenomena, the sugatagarbha. See CM 434,448; VE 418,470-78.  +
A "holder of knowledge who has ascertained the nature of pristine awareness. Nyingma tantras describe four levels of vidyādhara. In ascending order of realization, they are the matured vidyādhara, corresponding to the vision of the direct perception of ultimate reality and the first āryabodhisattva ground, known as Very Joyful; the vidyādhara with mastery over life, corresponding to the vision of progress in meditative experience and the fifth āryabodhisattva ground, Difficult to Cultivate; the mahāmudrā vidyā dhara, corresponding to the vision of reaching consummate awareness and the eighth āryabodhisattva ground, Immovable; and the spontaneously actualized vidyādhara, corresponding to the vision of extinction into ultimate reality and the tenth āryabodhisattva ground, Cloud of Dharma. See VE 350-51.  +
The lineage in which the practical instructions naturally arise in verbal transmission as an entrance to the disciples' paths, like filling a vase. See VE 2, GD280.  +