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Lit. totally obscurational truth," such provisional, conventional truths appear in a manner contrary to their mode of existence and thereby obscure the nature of ultimate truth. Teachings concerning names and individual, real characteristics are called relative truths. See VE190.  +
The dream-like intermediate period immediately following the transitional phase of ultimate reality, in which one is on the way to one's next rebirth.  +
A three-edged ritual dagger that may be used as an object of devotions, such as prostrations, offerings, and circumambulations.  +
A vehicle for spiritual practice leading to varying degrees of spiritual liberation and enlightenment.  +
A wisdom being who is an aspect of the absolute space of primordial consciousness and the root of enlightened activity. A highly realized female bodhisattva, who manifests in the world in order to serve sentient beings. A mundane or worldly female. The Tibetan term means a female "sky-goer," referring to the fact that such beings course in the expanse of absolute space. See GD 126-17, VE 196-98.  +
A succinct and powerful practical instruction, coming from the experience of the guru and the lineage. instruction, pointing-out (Tib. mdzub khrid, ngo sprod pa). An introduction to the nature of the mind.  +
Lit. "hearer," a disciple of the Buddha who is committed to his own individual liberation by following the path set forth by the Buddha.  +
The one dharmakāya, which is replete with all the qualities of the buddhas and which encompasses the entirety of samsāra and nirvāṇa.  +
Lit. "self-liberation" or "self-release," this may also be translated as "release itself" or "natural release." When there is no grasping, thoughts and afflictions are naturally liberated without any need for antidotes, interventions, or outside forces. This is life the knots in a snake unraveling themselves. See GD 294.  +
The ultimate nature of emptiness, which together with relative truth constitute the two truths.  +
Material gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and ridicule, and good and bad reputation. mundane existence (Tib. srid pa, Skt. bhava). The cycle of existence in which one is propelled from life to life by the force of one's mental afflictions and karma.  +
Lit. "executioner," a demonic being that displays the appearances of birth and death within saṃsāra, severs the artery of liberation, and steals the breath of happiness.  +
In direct crossing over terminology, this is the lamp of the eyes, which are fluid and are able to apprehenddistant objects, as if they were caught with a lasso. This lamp is like the flower of a tree whose root is the citta lamp of the flesh and whose trunk is the hollow crystal kati channel. The term fluid distant lasso lamp is collectively given to all three, which are known as the three lamps of the vessel. See CM 423-24, VE 424-25.  +