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the interdependent nature of phenomena; their manner of appearance and functioning. +
spiritual mentor and guide +
an esoteric discource attributed to the Buddha; a way to enlightenment which makes use of mantra, visualization, and the control of subtle physical energies; the adamantine vehicle to enlightenment (vajrayāna). +
those practices of compassion and so forth leading to the attainment of the form body (rupakaya) of a buddha. +
Sanskrit syllables incorporating the name of one's spiritual mentor, recited to enhance devotion and to request inspiration. +
(sattva, rajah, tamah) asserted by the non-Buddhist Sāṃkhya school as the three basic constituents of the "primal substance" (prakrti): lightness, activity and darkness. +
solitary realizer; a Hinayāna practitioner who does not rely on a spiritual master during the final stages of the path. +
a discourse preached by the Buddha; the non-tantric way to enlightenment. +
one of the eighteen earliest schools of Buddhism; classified by the Tibetans as one of the sub-sects of the Vaibāshika school. +
the deluded mental factor that is attracted to and wishes to possess misery-producing objects, mistakenly believing them to be true sources of happiness. +
voidness; emptiness; the absence of inherent existence; the ultimate mode of being of all phenomena. +
a practitioner following a spiritual discipline that "yokes" him or her to a specific path and practice; one who has mastered the practices of concentration and insight. +
the form in which a buddha appears to advanced bodhisattvas; the enjoyment body. +
(1) the power of knowing right from wrong; (2) the power of knowing the consequences of actions; (3) the power of knowing the various inclinations of living beings; (4) the power of knowing the various types of living beings; (5) the power of knowing the degree of the capacities of living beings; (6) the power of knowing the path that leads everywhere; (7) the power of knowing the obscurations, afflictions and purifications of all contemplations, meditations, liberations, concentrations and absorptions; (8) the power of knowing one's former lives; (9) the power of knowing the time of death and future lives; (10) the power of knowing the exhaustion of defilements. (Adapted from Thurman, Robert, ''The Holy Teachings of Virmalakirti''([[sic]]). Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.) +
conventional or deceptive truth, i.e. the way in which phenomena normally appear and function, and ultimate truth, i.e. the way in which phenomena actually exist. +
full enlightenment: the goal of the Mahāyāna practitioner. +
the twelvefold chain of causation describing the way in which suffering arises from ignorance and the actions motivated by ignorance; (1) ignorance; (2) formative actions; (3) consciousness; (4) name and form; (5) the six sense bases; (6) contact; (7) feeling; (8) craving; (9) longing; (10) existence; (11) birth; (12) ageing and death. +
one of the four major Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, established in the fifteenth century by Je Tsong Khapa and his followers. +
Skt., samsara; the unsatisfactory state of existence, rooted in ignorance of the actual nature of reality, in which beings experience the various sufferings of repeated death and rebirth. +
