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bslab gsum;བསླབ་གསུམ་;three trainings;three trainings;The trainings in morality, meditation, and wisdom. +
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gdan sa;གདན་ས་;monastic seat;monastic seat;In Tibetan traditions, the main monastery of a particular lineage, which usually will have associated with it various subsidiary monasteries, retreat houses, and other religious institutions. +
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bdag 'dzin gnyis;བདག་འཛིན་གཉིས་;two types of apprehension of self;two types of apprehension of self;Imputed and innate. +
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dbu ma rang rgyud;དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་;Svātantrika Madhyamaka;According to Tibetan scholarly tradition, the school of ''Madhyamaka'' philosophy that (a) stresses syllogistic reasoning rather than the use of ''reductio ad absurdum'' (''prasaṅga'') in establishing the nature of ''dharmas'' as ''emptiness'' and (b) asserts that dharmas possess inherent defining characteristics (''svalak^ana''), at least conventionally. The school is subdivided into Sautrāntika Svātantrika Madhyamaka (represented by Bhāvaviveka andjñānagarbha) and Yogācāra Svãtantrika Madhyamaka (represented by Śāntaraksita and Kamalaśīla). +
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skyes mchog bzhi;སྐྱེས་མཆོག་བཞི་;four great men;four great men;In Chinese traditions: Fu Xi, Wen Wang, Zhou Gong, and Kongzi (Confucius). +
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rdzogs chen gyi sde gsum;རྫོགས་ཆེན་གྱི་སྡེ་གསུམ་;three classes of Dzokchen;three classes of dzokchen;The mind class, expanse class, and special-instruction class. +
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stong pa nyid;སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་;emptiness;emptiness;śūnyatā;The central term in ''Mahayana'' philosophy, especially the ''Madhyamaka'' school, and the truth that must be realized if enlightenment is to be attained. A radicalization and universalization of the early Buddhist idea of no-self, emptiness is the true nature of all entities and concepts in both ''samsara'' and ''nirvana'', variously taken to be the absence of ''inherent existence'', the enlightened minds lack of samsaric ''dharmas'', or external objects’ nondifFerence from the mind that perceives them. +
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kha sbyor yan lag bdun;ཁ་སྦྱོར་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་;seven integrated factors;seven integrated factors;Qualities of the enjoyment body: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, essencelessness, perfect compassion, noninterruption，and noncessation. +
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cig car ba;ཅིག་ཅར་བ་;simultaneist;simultaneist;In any Buddhist tradition, a practitioner who attains the final goal either very rapidly or instantaneously. The simultaneist approach is generally reserved for advanced meditators and is particularly celebrated in Chan Buddhism and, among Tibetans, by those in ''Dzokchen'' and ''Mahāmudrā'' lineages. +
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bdud bzhi;བདུད་བཞི་;four māras;four māras;The aggregates, delusions, death, and the divine youth. +
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dkyil ’khor;དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་;maṇḍala;mandala;mandala;In any tantric system, the abode of a ''buddha'' deity, which represents an enlightened transformation of our ordinary environment. Upon initiation into a particular tantric practice, the disciple is introduced to the mandala and its inhabitants, and in ''sādhana'' practice, he or she will visualize him or herself at the center of the mandala. +
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sdom gsum;སྡོམ་གསུམ་;three pledges;three pledges;See ''three vows'' +
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bskyed rim;བསྐྱེད་རིམ་;generation stage;generation stage;utpattikrama;In advanced tantric systems (e.g., mahāyoga or ''highest yoga tantra''), the phase of practice, preceding the climactic ''completion stage'', in which one “overcomes ordinary appearances” by visualizing oneself as a ''buddha''-deity at the center of a complex ''mandala'', identifying ones body, speech, and mind with that of a buddha. +
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dbu ma'i lugs gnyis;དབུ་མའི་ལུགས་གཉིས་;two Madhyamaka schools;two madhyamaka schools;Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika. +
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snang gsum;སྣང་གསུམ་;three appearances;three appearances;In Sakya tradition： the appearance of phenomena as impure falsities, through which one develops renunciation;the appearance of experience in meditation, through which one develops the awakening mind of a bodhisattva;and pure appearance, through which, practicing secret mantra, one perfects one’s body, speech, and mind. +
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skyes bu gsum;སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་;three persons;three persons;In Kadam and Geluk traditions, persons of: small scope (seeking higher rebirths), intermediate scope (seeking individual liberation), and great scope (seeking enlightenment for the sake of all beings). +
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snyan brgyud;སྙན་བརྒྱུད་;ear-whispered lineage;ear-whispered lineage;A confidential transmission in which special instructions have been handed down orally from guru to disciple. Ear-whispered lineages often preserve tantric traditions that have been transmitted outside of major institutional structures. Though primarily oral/ aural, they may eventually be written down. +
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rgyud bzhi;རྒྱུད་བཞི་;four tantras;four tantras;See ''four medical tantras'' +
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bden par yod pa/grub pa;བདེན་པར་ཡོད་པ། གྲུབ་པ་;true existence/establishment;true existence/establishment;A quality of ''dharmas'' that, if they possessed it, would define them as “true” in the sense of being permanent, partless, and independent. True existence (generally synonymous with ''inherent existence'') is an important object of refutation in ''Madhyamaka'' philosophy, and realization of ''dharmas' emptiness'' of true existence is the necessary condition for the elimination of ''delusions'' and the attainment of ''liberation''. +
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byang chub;བྱང་ཆུབ་;enlightenment;enlightenment;bodhi;More properly “awakening,” this is the goal of the Buddhist path, achieved by Śākyamuni Buddha under the bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, and attainable by all sentient beings. In ''Hinayana'', it is the ''nirvana'' attained by an ''arhat'';in ''Mahayana'', it is ''buddhahood'', entailing omniscience, infinite compassion, and the power to manifest in countless ways to assist sentient beings. +
