Property:Gloss-def
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unknowing; specifically the deluded mental factor that is mistaken about the actual way in which things exist; the root of cyclic existence and all suffering. +
a Mahāyāna practitioner; someone striving to gain the full enlightenment of buddhahood in order to benefit others. +
the deluded mental factor that seeks to be separated from and generates anger towards unpleasant objects. +
one who has achieved liberation from cyclic existence: the goal of the Hinayāna practitioner. +
a circular diagram symbolic of the universe; the visualized abode of a meditational deity. +
the unobscured, omniscient mind of a buddha; the truth body. +
Enumerator; a non-Buddhist school asserting twenty-five categories of objects of knowledge. +
the falsely conceived way in which phenomena are believed to exist, i.e. without depending upon parts, causes and mental imputation. +
the form in which a buddha appears to ordinary beings; the emanation body. +
Here, any deity of the Buddhist pantheon. +
Literally, a jewel. "Maṇi" is also a way of referring to the famed six-syllable mantra of Avalokiteśvara: ''oṃ ma ṇi pad me hūṃ''. +
Literally, "Holder of the Vajra," Vajradhara is the name used for the Dharmakāya, or "Truth Body," of Buddha and for the deity who heads the tantric practice lineages. According to the various traditions of Tibetan tantrism, he is the source from which the tantric teachings originated and from which all such lineages issue. Thus, according to the Kagyüpas, the Mahāmudrā teachings were passed directly from Vajradhara to Tilopa and, through the latter, to Nāropa, Milarepa, etc. According to the Gelukpas, the Mahāmudrā lineage descended from the Buddha Vajradhara to Lord Mañjuśrī. Tsongkapa then received the teachings directly from Lord Mañjuśrī himself. +
A fully ordained Buddhist monk, who has taken the 253 vows of full ordination. +
Used especially of a philosophical position. +
According to the Gelukpa, this is the form that Tsongkapa will assume in the future. Iconographically, the deity is a form of Lord Mañjuśrī. +
The Buddha as "Healer," also called the "Medicine Buddha." +
A newly ordained Buddhist monk. See the entry under ''pravrajyā''. +
A descriptive ritual and meditation text. Also the meditation practice it outlines. +
Literally, "continuity," the term is used to refer both to the texts that elaborate the views and practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism and to those practices themselves. +
A title of great respect meaning "noble." +
