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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.  +
The fundamental nature of a phenomenon, as in the case of awareness being the essential nature of the mind. Emptiness, as the essential nature of mind.  +
A symbolic representation of the world, which is ritually offered; a representation of the pore abode of a deity.  +
The coarse obscurations that are abandoned on the path of seeing the nature of reality.  +
An intrinsically existent self, which is actually nonexistent but which is grasped as real by the deluded mind.  +
The ten are the (1) abodes (Tib. gnas, Skt.pīṭha), (2) outer abodes (Tib. nye ba'i gnas, Skt. upapīṭha), (3) fields (Tib. zhing, Skt. kṣetra), (4) outer fields (Tib. nye ba'i zhing, Skt. upakṣetra), (5) pleasing places (Tib. tshan do, Skt. chandoha), (6) outer pleasing places (Tib. nye ba'i tshan do, Skt. upachandoha), (7) meeting places (Tib. 'du ba, Skt. melapaka), (8) outer meeting places (Tib. nye ba'i 'du ba, Skt. upamelāpaka), (9) charnel grounds (Tib. dur khrod, Skt. śmaśāna), and (10) outer charnel grounds (Tib. nye ba'i dur khrod, Skt. upaśmaśāna).  +
One of eight attainments in the form and formless realms corresponding to the dhyānas. meditative concentration. See samādhi.  +
The channel in the heart through which flow the life-sustaining vital energies, corresponding to the aorta of the physical body and the avadhūti  +
The mental process by which one monitors one's own body and mind. In the practice of śamatha, its principal function is to note the occurrence of laxity and excitation.  +
In the Ayurvedic and Tibetan medical systems, the bodily constituent, or humor, responsible for heat, metabolism, and transformation.  +