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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.  +
The principal delusion is the reification of oneself and ''other phenomena,'' which acts as the root of all other mental affliction  +
The designation of matricide for the rūdra (of self-concepts) because he devours (obscures) his mother (the sugatagarbha). See CM 403, GD 276.  +
The eight philosophical assertions of origination, cessation, existence, nonexistence, coming, going, diversity, and unity.  +
The lowest subdivision of the commoners caste (śūdra) of Vedic India, known in English as "untouchables."  +