sa bcu;ས་བཅུ་;ten stages;ten stages;The levels traversed by a bodhisattva: the joyous, the stainless, the illuminating, the radiant, the hard-to-conquer, the manifest, the farreaching, the unmoving, the good-minded, the Dharma cloud. +
bden bzhi'i rnam pa bcu drug;བདེན་བཞིའི་རྣམ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག་;sixteen aspects of the four noble truths;sixteen aspects of the four noble truths;Suffering is: suffering, impermanence, emptiness, no-self;origin is: origination, production, cause, condition;cessation is: cessation, peace, excellence, renunciation; path is: path, reasoning, attainment, and disillusionment. +
byams pa dang ’brel ba'i chos nyi shu;བྱམས་པ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཆོས་ཉི་ཤུ་;twenty Dharma treatises related to Maitreya;twenty dharma treatises related to maitreya;The five treatises of Maitreya, the five treatises on the stages, the two compendiums, and the eight dissertations. +
phags pa;ཕགས་པ་;ārya;In all Buddhist traditions, a practitioner whose ''enlightenment'' is certain, usually because of his or her direct insight into the nature of things with a mind that is deeply concentrated. In a five-path system, whether ''Hinayana'' or ''Mahayana'', the point at which one becomes an ārya is ones entrance onto the path of seeing. +
mkhas grub;མཁས་གྲུབ་;scholar-adept;scholar-adept;In Tibetan Buddhism, an honorific term applied to a master who is widely and deeply learned as well as spiritually developed, displaying the best qualities of a pandit and a yogin. +
dag pa gnyis;དག་པ་གཉིས་;two purities;two purities;The purity resulting from the elimination of delusion obstacles and knowledge obstacles, respectively. +
dngos grub;དངོས་གྲུབ་;yogic achievements;yogic achievements;siddhi;Generally speaking, any powerful attainment that results from spiritual practice. Yogic achievements are generally divided into the transmundane—i.e., complete ''buddhahood''一 and the mundane, which includes such powers as invisibility, flying, walking through solids, curing disease, and prolonging life. +
rtag par smra ba brgyad;རྟག་པར་སྨྲ་བ་བརྒྱད་;eight proponents of eternalism;eight proponents of eternalism;Sāṃkhyas, Brahmavādins, Vaiṣṇavas, Mīmāṃsakas, Śaivas, Vaiśeṣikas, Naiyāyikas, and Nirgranthas. +
lhan skyes ye shes;ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཡེ་ཤེས་;innate gnosis;innate gnosis;sahajajñāna;n tantric contexts, the fundamental, luminous awareness that is intrinsic to all beings. Tantric practice aims at the actualization of this gnosis, which is roughly synonymous with ''buddha nature'' and ''clear light''. +
bsre ’pho dgu skor;བསྲེ་འཕོ་དགུ་སྐོར་;ninefold cycle on mixing and transference;ninefold cycle on mixing and transference;In Kagyü Mahāmudrā inner heat, which mixes desire with great bliss;illusory body, which mixes anger with lack of true existence;clear light, which mixes ignorance with nonconceptuality;the daytime meditation that mixes inner heat with illusory body;the nighttime meditation that mixes dream with clear light;the death-time meditation that mixes bardo with the transference of consciousness;inner-heat practice for energetic individuals;dream practice for lazy individuals;and mixing greater and lesser transference practices. +