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The inner objects of refuge, which are the guru, the root of blessings; one's personal deity (Tib.jv dam, Skt. iffadevatd), the root ofsiddhis; and the dākinīs or the dharmapālas, the roots of enlightened activities.  +
A form embodiment of an enlightened being, including nirmāṇakāyas and saṃbhogakāyas.  +
The second of the two phases of the practice of the Great Perfection, which is aimed at realizing the spontaneous manifestations of the dharmakāya.  +
The left channel among the three principal channels that run vertically through the torso and up into the head  +
One of eight flesh-eating protector deities with a bird's head and a woman's body or with a carnivorous animal's head and a man's body. See GD187, VE261.  +
Lit. "solitary buddha," a person who is committed to his own individual liberation by solitary practice. Pratyekabuddhayāna (Skt., Tib. rang sangs rgyas kyi theg pa). The spiritual vehicle of a pratyekahuddha, which is perfected by realizing the nature of all appearances and mindsets of the three realms as dependently related events and as the t welve links ofdependent origination.  +
Primordial consciousness of the equal purity of saṃsāra and nirvāna in great emptiness; this is purified as Bhagavān Ratnasambhava. When obscured by ignorance, it manifests externally as yellow light; this is reified as the derivative element of earth. Its radiance is transformed into afflictive mentation and gives rise to thoughts of pride and the aggregate of feeling. See GD 150-53, VE 121-25.  +
An ethically neutral, inwardly directed state of consciousness, free of conceptualization, in which appearances of self, others, and objects are absent. suchness (Tib. de bzhin nyidSkt. tathatd). The ineffable realityofemptiness; the ultimate nature of all phenomena.  +
A teaching received by an accomplished master in a visionary experience or dream as ablessing from a wisdom beingsuch as a deity, siddha, or dākinL  +
*''elements'' (Tib. khams, Skt. dhātu). The eighteen elements of conscious experience, consisting of the twelve sense bases and the six consciousnesses.   +
A metaphor for the qualities of a buddha. The term ornament refers to those excellent qualities, and the term wheel refers to the all-encompassing, inexhaustible nature of the outer, inner, and secret qualities.  +