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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.  +
The seventeen domains of the form realm, which are spontaneously actualized by afflictive mentation, include the domains of Brahma's Assembly, the Priests of Brahma, and Great Brahma in the first dhyāna; Lesser Radiance, Immeasurable Radiance, and Clear Radiance in the second dhyāna; Lesser Virtue, Immeasurable Virtue, and Most Extensive Virtue in the third dhyāna; Cloudless, Increasing Merit, and Great Fruition in the fourth dhyāna; and the five pure heavens: the Slightest, the Painless, Perfect Appearance, Extreme Vision, and Akaniṣṭha.  +
The liberation of pristine awareness perceiving its own essential nature for itself, characteristic of the youthful vase kāya. SeeGD 149 .  +
To actualize the great display of all phenomena included in saṃsāra and nirvāṇa by realizing the mode of being of the ground. See 141, VE114.  +
Lit. "ford-maker," this designation for non-Buddhist philosophies and traditions connotes those on the steps at the edge of the river of saṃsāra, which they seek to ford.  +
Appearing from itself, a characteristic of primordial consciousness and of all phenomena.  +
Ruby, sapphire, lapis lazuli, emerald, diamond, pearl, and coral. Alternately gold, silver, turquoise, coral, pearl, emerald, and sapphire.  +
Vivid mindfulness resulting from the unification of the minds stillness and movement; this is called vipalyanā.  +
The spiritual vehicle of the hrāvakas, which is perfected by realizing personal identitylessness. Srimat (Skt., Tib. dpal dang ldan pa). Lit. "Endowed with Glory," the buddhafield of Ratnasambhava in the southern direction.  +