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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.  +
A painted or embroidered Tibetan Buddhist image, usually depicting one or more deities or manualas, which can be rolled up for storage or transportation.  +
The inner elements. The pure quintessences of space, water, earth, fire, and air, which arise as the play of absolute space in the five primary colors of white, blue, yellow, red, and green. They manifest as the outer luster of the five lights due to obscuration of the inner glow of the five facets of primordial consciousness. See CM 398, BM 327-29, GD 150-53, VE 123-25.  +
The mental faculty of attending continuously, without forgetfulness, to an object with which one is already familiar.  +
A titan, or demigod, whose existence is characterized by aggression and conflict with the devas.  +
The stages of attainment and the paths that lead to them. There are five sequential paths culminating in the liberation of a śrāvaka, five culminating in the liberation of a pratyekabuddha, and five bodhisattva paths culminating in the perfect enlightenment of a buddha. According to the sūtra tradition, there are ten āryabodhisattva grounds. According to the Great Perfection tradition, there are twenty āryabodhisattva grounds, followed by the culmination of the twenty-first ground.  +
Energy currents in the body, included within the triad of channels, vital energies, and bindus. See also karmic energy (Tib. las rlung) andenergy-mind (Tib. rlungsems).  +
The goals for oneself and the goals for others. graha (Skt., Tib. gdon). A malevolent, demonic being that torments one in lifetime after lifetime.  +
The combination of vital energy, likened to a blind, wild horse, and the mind, likened to a crippled rider. See GD 150, VE45.  +