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Lit. "Compact Display" this is the buddhafield of Vairocana in the central direction. See VE 192.  +
Mental imprints accumlated as a result of previous experiences or actions, which influence later events and conduct.  +
A direct crossing over practice in which one visualizes Hūm syllables emerging from and withdrawing back into one's heart, as a means to gain mastery over one's vital energies and mind. See VE 413-15.  +
Dualistic awareness that clings to appearances, conceptually observes its own processes, and arouses pleasure and pain through intellectual fabrications and the acceptance and rejection of virtue and vice.  +
That which functions independently. Characteristic reasoning of the Svātantrika Madhyamaka system.  +
The outer elements. The impure "residues" of the five great elements; they arise externally as space, water, earth, fire, and air due to grasping and reification of the five lights of the great elements. See CM 398, BM 327-29, GD 150-53, VE 123-25.  +
Conceptual constructs, such as those of existence and nonexistence, which are apprehended by way of dualistic grasping.  +
A substantial cause of a phenomenon is a prior phenomenon that actually transforms into the subsequent phenomenon that it produces, such as a seed that transforms into a sprout. substantialism (Tib. gngos par lta ba). The view that phenomena exist by their own inherent natures, prior to and independent of conceptual designation.  +
The all-pervasive, fundamental nature of awareness, which is equivalent to the dharmakāya.  +
Lit. "man or what?" —a human-bird chimera. One of the eight classes of haughty gods and demons.  +
Cool, sweet, soothing, light, clear, pure, not harmful to the throat, and beneficial to the stomach.  +
The samādhi of suchness, the all illuminating samādhi, and the causal samādhi. See GD 140-43, VE 213-15.  +
Lit. "seven dharmas of Vairocana," with the (1) body seated in vajrāsana, (i) hands on lap with palms up, right on left, and thumbs touching, (3) spine straight, like a pile of coins, (4) shoulders spread, like a vulture's wings, (5) chin tucked in slightly, like an iron hook, (6) mouth open slightly and tongue touching the palate, and (7) eyes gazingslighdy downward at a point beyond the nose.  +
The third of the four stages of mahāmudrā meditation. The empty nature of all phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa: equally nonexistent, equally pure, naturally arising from the expanse of the ground, and not established as anything else. See GD146, VE 353.  +
A song of contemplative realization, such as those of the Indian mahāsiddha Saraha and the Tibetan yogi Milarepa.  +
The five types of sensory consciousness, the mental consciousness, the substrate consciousness, and afflictive mentation.  +
Sudden, disturbing appearances that can be external, internal, and secret in nature; they may be wrongly attributed to gods or demons. See CM 355, GD 306, VE 331.  +