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The fourth and final vision on the path ofdirect crossing over, in which all phenomena dissolve into the space of awareness. This corresponds to the attainment of the supreme ground of a spontaneously actualized vidyādhara on the mantra path, which surpasses the tenth āryabodhisattva ground, known as the Cloud of Dharma.  +
Negative thoughts, rooted in ego-grasping, which cause saṃsāra to come into existence.  +
(1) Taking refuge, (2) cultivating bodhicitta, (3) offering the mandala, (4) practicing the purificatory meditation and mantra of Vajrasattva, (5) guru yoga, (6) transference of consciousness, and (7) severance of māras.  +
Discourses attributed to the Buddha, but not included among the tantras, many of which, according to the Vajrayāna tradition, are also attributed to the historical Buddha (as in the case of the Kālacakra Tantra) or to later emanations of the buddhas (as in the case of the Vajra Essence, which is described as a tantra).  +
The spiritual vehicle taught in the "yoga tantras," which is perfected by recognizing the profound view as being of greatest importance.  +
Steadfast engagement in practices to cultivate bodhicitta as profound means to simultaneously accomplish the six perfections for the sake of all beings. See VE 204-5.  +
The appearances of the apprehended object, the apprehending mind, and the body of a sentient being. appearances, threemodes of (Tib. snang tshul gsum). Appearances in the form of one's environment, one's body, and the five sensory objects.  +
The Youthful Vajra, an activity emanation of Vajrakila whose upper body has three faces and six arms and whose lower body is a kila, a three-edged ritual dagger. See GD 182- 83, VE156. See also Khenpo Namdrol, Ihe Practice of Vajrakilaya (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1999). 57-59-  +
The Great Perfection, or atiyoga, the pinnacle of the nine vehicles transmitted by the Nyingma school. The clear-light absolute nature of reality, having no center or periphery, from which all phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa spontaneously arise as creative displays. See VE 301-11.  +
a "victorious one" who has conquered cognitive and afflictive obscurations; an epithet of a buddha.  +
In the Great Perfection, the realization of ultimate bodhicitta is the actualization of identitylessness as the play of the consummation of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, free of activity and conceptual elaboration. Precious bodhicitta subsumes all authentic realities and is the ultimate source of all phenomena; it manifests the wisdom of realizing identitylessness, liberating the three realms of saṃsāra as the play of the three kāyas. See CM 396; GD 282; VS 526, 544; VE 19, 119, 174, 204-5, 291, 294-95.  +
An advanced degree of meditative concentration, in which attentional stability and vividness have been developed to the point that one can fully engage in the cultivation of insight.  +
A direct crossing over practice in which one forcefully, meditatively permeates one's external environment and inner body with Hūm syllables, finally dissolving them all into emptiness. See VE 411-13.  +
Lit. "to grasp at true existence," attributing independent, inherent existence to that which exists only conventionally by the power of conceptual designation.  +