Property:Gloss-def
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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. +
the aspect of consciousness that is aware only of the consciousness itself. It is asserted by the Chittamatra school and refuted by the Madhyamaka school. +
Indian Buddhist master of the second century who elucidated the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras of Buddha; the major expounder of the Madhyamaka philosophy. +
Indian master of the sixth century who elucidated Nāgārjuna's exposition of the Madhyamaka philosophy; author of the ''Madhyamakāvtāra'' ([[sic]]). +
the ten stages or grounds through which advanced bodhisattvas pass on their way to enlightenment. +
third of the four major schools of Buddhist philosophy; this Mahāyāna school denies the existence of external objects and asserts the true existence of the mind; sometimes referred to as the Mind-only school. +
those paths of Buddhist thought and practice stressing the attainments of the full enlightenment of buddha hood for the benefit of others; the paths of the bodhisattva; the so-called greater vehicle. +
the mistaken view with which one believes one's I or self to exist independently and inherently, instead of being a mere imputation on the everchanging aggregates. +
the hub around which the various segments of the universe are arranged; visualized especially at the centre of mandala offerings. +
Skt., ''ālayavijñāna''; asserted by the Chittamātra school as the consciousness upon which the seeds of karmic actions are placed. +
the form body of a buddha comprising the sambhogakāya and nirmanakāya. +
